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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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.
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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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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.
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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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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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We need less perfect but more free films.
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Everything we earn we need as a reserve.
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Just because I won the U.S. Open doesn't mean I'm going to change the way I live.
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I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.
