Beyonce (Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter) Quotes
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
Malcolm X
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
Zooey Deschanel
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
Ralph Ellison
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
Danica Patrick
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I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.
Barry Jenkins
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
Tasha Smith
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
Quincy Jones
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
Adam Grant
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
Tatyana Tolstaya
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I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.
Fernando Botero
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
Mandy Patinkin
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I was truly honored to work with legendary DJ and producer DJ Premier. I still can't believe I have a track with Premier; it really is one of the best songs I've written in a long time.
Yuna
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Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.
Jaclyn Smith
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I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?
Eric Idle
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Our aim in studying the Godhead must be to know God himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not simply with the doctrine of God’s attributes, but with the living God whose attributes they are.
J. I. Packer
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If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry?
Dalai Lama
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I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture.
Jesse Eisenberg
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I think it's important for women to be around other women and learn from each other.
Beyonce
Destiny's Child
