Princess Nokia (Destiny Nicole Frasqueri) Quotes
I'd been suffering all of my life. I think comedians and artists, we do that. We know how to be the life of the party and enjoy exuberance outside of pain.
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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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I've failed once or twice real big, independent.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
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I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
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I like heels and make-up.
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I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
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I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.
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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
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I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.
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The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.
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Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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There’s something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when you’re inside them the noise, the reality of the teeming city beyond, disappears; it’s just outside the door, but it might as well be a magical land far, far away.
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I'd been suffering all of my life. I think comedians and artists, we do that. We know how to be the life of the party and enjoy exuberance outside of pain.
