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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You can seek advice, learn about the options and make choices that are right for you. Knowledge is power.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
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Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and Strawberry Sundaes.
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Well, it wasn't really a decision on my part although you always hope as an author that a book that goes out of print somehow winds up back in print. These days publishers like to put out-of-print books into e-book form, but I really wanted to do an update.
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I have nine Grammy Awards. I wouldn't have that if I couldn't sing.
