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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The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.
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Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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To go through this life and see it through - what it really is - and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.
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I have nine Grammy Awards. I wouldn't have that if I couldn't sing.
