Beyonce (Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter) Quotes
And my husband and I have been together for 10 years, so I guess people felt a part of it and it makes me feel really good
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
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A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy.
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To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
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You go to a Springsteen show, and half of the people are there to party and forget about their cares, and they're being drawn to this visceral experience. And then the other half, you know, has lived and died with his 'Nebraska' album and considers him one of the greatest poets.
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It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
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I think it's wrong for the government to subpoena records from journalists involved in national-security reporting (particularly since I do it myself). I do believe it has a chilling effect on the ability to gather news about potential abuses masked by inappropriate classification.
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And my husband and I have been together for 10 years, so I guess people felt a part of it and it makes me feel really good
