Mo'Nique (Monique Angela Hicks) Quotes
Do we stand up over a gold plated trophy? Or do we stand up and say we need equal wages and equal treatment?The Oscars have not been any different for what...89 years? But why do we keep wanting to get thrown a bone? Why do we want to keep saying 'Can we please come to your party?
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
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Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?
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It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
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When Barack Obama was elected, it immediately brought out all the differences in society.
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The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.
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I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.
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I think it's really important to live in the moment.
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I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the real world.
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My pop culture ended somewhere north of Elvis but not too far.
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I like making things. I don't like getting my picture taken.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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Are black people conscious of how excruciatingly self-conscious white people have become in their every interaction with black people? Is this self-consciousness an improvement? Maybe not, because I'm thinking of people in categories rather than as people, which is a famously dangerous thing to do.
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Do we stand up over a gold plated trophy? Or do we stand up and say we need equal wages and equal treatment?The Oscars have not been any different for what...89 years? But why do we keep wanting to get thrown a bone? Why do we want to keep saying 'Can we please come to your party?
