Beyonce (Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter) Quotes
I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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I don’t know what to tell you, Perry. Life’s hard. Love’s harder
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.
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This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.
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I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
