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!
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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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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 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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But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.
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The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--
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I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it.
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Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.
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I know a lot of you believe that most people in the news business are liberal. Let me tell you, I know a lot of them, and they were almost evenly divided this time. Half of them liked Senator Kerry; the other half hated President Bush.
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I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.
