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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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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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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In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
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I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.
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I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.
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I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.
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I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.
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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?