Mo'Nique (Monique Angela Hicks) Quotes
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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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.
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I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.
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I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.
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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.
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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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We're like a travelling circus... We're always on the go.
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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.
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I don't have to work; I need to work.
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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.
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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
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There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
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I'm happy to sparkle like a glazed disco ball.
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It's hard to explain, but it's a beautiful thing to watch in wrestling when someone loses in the exact perfect way.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.
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Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.
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The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.
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The Oscars are not something I watch anyway.
