Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.

Miriam Makeba

• World
• Political
• Wanted
• Apartheid

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  Barbara Kingsolver
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• Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.

  

  Ed Rendell
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• One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.

  

  Gary Locke
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• You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

  

  Barry Mann
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• I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.

  

  Fat Joe
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• You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Happy
  • Future
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• Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Think
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• The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Time
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• I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Fashion
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• You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
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• It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Amazing
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• I'm not jealous, and I'm not possessive, and I'm not controlling.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Jealous
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• Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
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• It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system.

  

  Daniel Bell
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• Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.

  

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• We know we’ve come to a crossroads when German childhood is being held up as an idealized model for Americans.

  

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• Rufus because my diaphragm gets a workout while trying to utilize the 18 vocal sounds a mole makes. Chuckie because ... he's an asthmatic with five personalities rolled into one-plus I have to do the voice the way Christine Cavanaugh did it for 10 years.

  

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• I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Time
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• No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.

  

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• I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!

  

  Carmen Miranda
  • Time
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• Gingrich, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, and Clinton passed legislation because they understood and appreciated the difficult political process. They fought for their principles yet recognized the need for compromise to get anything done.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Done
  • Political

• After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Responsibility
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• Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • World
  • Political
  • Wanted