Princess Nokia (Destiny Nicole Frasqueri) Quotes
I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.
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I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
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Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.
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I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.
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After doing comedy for a while and knowing how hard it is to do physical comedy right, I learned how incredibly talented the Three Stooges really were after re-watching old episodes. They still stand up!
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I don't want my life to be about a house and a car.
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Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
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A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
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I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.
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When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.
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Under the Affordable Care Act everybody will have lower rates, better quality care, and better access.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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The income streams of musicians have all been upstreamed into the pockets of computer corporations. Sound recordings are little more than free crackerjacks inside every computer or cellphone that you buy.
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
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I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.
