Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes
Belafonte sent his people to pick me up and I went back and shook his hand, then went back to my little flat. I was very happy to have met a president of the United States - little me!
Quotes to Explore
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Funny is an attitude.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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I don't even think my children are aware of what I've done. When somebody will ask me for my autograph, Spenser-Margaret will say, 'You must watch 'Charlie's Angels.' You know, that's like all I've done to them.
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I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.
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It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.
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I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.
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I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
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The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.
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The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
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Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis
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What's wrong with the world and what can we do to change it?
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Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.
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"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the solitary turtle-dove, retires and recollects itself in meditation to converse with God, then the flowers, that is, good desires, appear; then comes the time of pruning, that is, the correction of faults that are discovered in mental prayer.
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To have the United States suddenly come up with a peace proposal after a whole series of terrorist attacks is going to show to the world that this sort of method is something that western societies can't stand.
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My fellow Americans, all of us in this grand hall and everybody watching at home, when we vote in this election, we'll be deciding what kind of country we want to live in. If you want a winner-take-all, you're-on-your-own society, you should support the Republican ticket. But if you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibility, a we're-all-in-this-together society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
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Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.
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I smoke too much whether it's going well or badly. After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.
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Belafonte sent his people to pick me up and I went back and shook his hand, then went back to my little flat. I was very happy to have met a president of the United States - little me!
