Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes
It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves.
Miriam Makeba
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster
My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
Jack Ma
Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
Calvin Coolidge
Never fight an inanimate object.
P. J. O'Rourke
The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.
Edward Witten
Sophistry is only fit to make men more conceited in their ignorance.
John Locke
Nazareth
My literary heroes were mostly women writers and thinkers - Joy Williams, Joan Didion, Anne Sexton, June Jordan, Sarah Schulman, Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Christa Wolf - and much of this writing was political as well as literary.
Alexander Chee
Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.
Rudyard Kipling
My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.
Jeff Baena
It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves.
Miriam Makeba
