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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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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It's important to take time off because it's a long journey this life, and I want to be singing in 30 years' time. You see a lot of artists who get caught up in the here and now, and they just burn themselves out, and I kind of did that myself with my third album.
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As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people.
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The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.
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A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this marriage of songs that structurally are quite bluesy. Sound-wise, there's a lot of indie as well. But you can't really say I'm pop-blues, because that's insulting to blues. It just can't exist.
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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?
