Beyonce (Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter) Quotes
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.
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I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!
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My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.
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Some people collect stamps, other people like to be famous. I don't have that hobby.
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When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.
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I wore miniskirts in the days when no fat girls should have, and with total delight.
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All three of us just had our eye on what was happening around us, we were very observant to what people were doing in love situations, and what was happening in the world.
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I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.
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When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.
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I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.
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My good now flows to me in a steady, unbroken, ever-increasing stream of success, happiness and abundance.
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Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization....The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other, the mutual hatred between motorist and pedestrian, these manifestations seem to constitute the ultimate in righteous wrath.
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There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.” -Jacen Solo
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I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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What goes down usually goes back up, if you're willing to be patient and don't hit the panic button.
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We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We're the nation that always dared to dream. We're the nation that dared to take risks.
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I have nine Grammy Awards. I wouldn't have that if I couldn't sing.
