Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes
Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.Miriam Makeba
Quotes to Explore
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
Yossi Vardi -
When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
T. B. Joshua -
I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
Gareth Gates -
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
Abraham Cahan -
Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.
Zach Wamp -
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
Dan Quayle
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I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.
Tahyna Tozzi -
When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'
Adam Driver -
We knew we were going to do a fashion line at some point.
Quavo Migos -
I don't really like talking about my personal life. I like a certain amount of veil.
Garrett Clayton -
Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's got to have that haziness to it.
Washed Out -
I am doing it the it I am doing is the I that is doing it the I that is doing it is the it I am doing it is doing the I that am doing it I am being done by the it I am doing it is doing it
R. D. Laing
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: I could understand principles of Perl source in 2-3 days [. . .]Gee, it took me about eleven years.
Larry Wall -
Keep ya head up. Do what you gotta do. And then, inside of you, I will be reborn.
Tupac Shakur -
Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online video revolution.
Burnie Burns -
Right before I graduated from the national theatre school, I got the part of Roxie Hart in 'Chicago' in Copenhagen. That led to me playing it here in London. I was 26 when I came over for that. It was the first thing I did as a professional, and it is still the experience of my life.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen -
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Mary Wollstonecraft -
A lot of the albums that I've been really into are like, 'Oh man. That doesn't make him look like a perfect human. That actually shows his warts and his scars, and for some reason, I'm super drawn to him now because he shared that or she shared that with me.'
Andy Grammer
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I love movies.
Anton Yelchin -
I'm a mother lion when it comes to protecting my children.
Joanna Cassidy -
If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.
Ali MacGraw -
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John Erskine -
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
Hannah More -
Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.
Miriam Makeba