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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In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.
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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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The income tax was devised to give lawyers and certified public accountants business. Few persons can make head, tail, or middle out of it. Einstein admitted he couldn't.
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The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.
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There is an important erotic element in A Thousand and One Nights, which is one of the keys to understanding the Orient.
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She was a thin woman in a mustard-yellow suit, with a yellowish complexion, short-cropped rusty red hair, and a stiff posture. She reminded Reynie of a giant walking pencil.
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As a kid I said 'Bob Costas went to Syracuse, I'm going to Syracuse'
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I have nine Grammy Awards. I wouldn't have that if I couldn't sing.