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 think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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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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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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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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Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on it. I never had a fallback plan.
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I have tremendous faith in President Obama's skills. He's a long-term visionary.
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My Italian granny and my mother made great spaghetti, but it wasn't a kind of southern Italian, Godfather-esque kind of thing - it was a wonderful, big mixing pot of all kinds of people - when you came home from school and your mum wasn't in, there were lots of people you could go to.
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It's wonderful that we're portraying women in this way so that young women can see that women actually are strong and capable of accomplishing all kinds of things.
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I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.
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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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Bethou me, said sparrow, to the crackled blade, And you, and you, bethou me as you blow, When in my coppice you behold me be.
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Movies tend to be dislocated and non-linear in their process.
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All of us have got to pay into a certain system, and what we're saying is it's 100% American that every American should be able to create, store and sell their own energy as they see fit. Let's decentralize energy. Let's democratize energy.
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I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.
