Mo'Nique (Monique Angela Hicks) Quotes

The Oscars are not something I watch anyway.

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• The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Trouble

• Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Earth
  • Class
  • Greek

• I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Stuff
  • Sing
  • Exciting

• Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Good
  • Power
  • Growth

• As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Way

• I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Think
  • Die
  • Find

• I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Body
  • Just
  • Stand

• I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Trying
  • Reading
  • My Own

• Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Education
  • Always
  • Humanity

• Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Character
  • Control
  • Wealth

• We're like a travelling circus... We're always on the go.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Like
  • Always
  • Circus

• You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Different
  • America

• I don't have to work; I need to work.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Work
  • Need

• Use a corrector to do all the heavy lifting under the eyes, not concealer. I spent years re-applying and layering concealer and Touche Eclat under there, when what I really needed was a good, peachy-toned corrector.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Years

• I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Old
  • Dictionary
  • Cap

• There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Mysticism

• I'm happy to sparkle like a glazed disco ball.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Happy
  • Sparkle
  • Disco

• We try to connect with the audience as much as we can. We feel the energy from the audience, and it gives us so much joy and inspiration.

  

  Stjepan Hauser 2Cellos
  • Joy
  • Inspiration
  • Audience

• People don’t pay to watch people huddle, I never thought. If they’re gonna pay good money, let’s give ‘em a good show.

  

  Art Briles
  • Show
  • Pay
  • Watch

• If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Time
  • Change
  • Marriage

• I wept that all must die -'Yet Love,' I cried, 'doth live, and conquer death -'And Time passed by,And breathed on Love, and killed it with his breathEre Death was nigh.More bitter far than allIt was to know that Love could change and die -Hush! for the ages call'The Love of God lives through eternity,And conquers all!'

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• Each country has its own manner of telephoning. The Russians, at least, are honest. They say, “It is Ivan Ivanovich who is bothering you.”

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Honest
  • Russians
  • Telephoning

• The Oscars are not something I watch anyway.

  

  Mo'Nique
  • Watch
  • Oscars
  • Anyway