Samantha Mumba Quotes
There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.
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Age is nothing but experience, and some of us are more experienced than others
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It's hard for us to imagine, as humans, that we'll become less powerful. But it'll be healthier for the planet and for the eco-system if that does happen. If humans are going to merge with machines, then let's get on with it. I love humans, but I also love dinosaurs - I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have wanted them to die out, either.
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There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
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You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
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There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.
