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 chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
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"When I have White, I win because I am white; When I have Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov"
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Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual.
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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!
