Beyonce (Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter) Quotes
When I'm on the red carpet, I'm prepared for [the attention.] But the worst thing is on planes, when you're asleep and you're woken up by a camera flashing. That's a little bit much. But what do you do? It's a part of [being famous]. Unfortunately.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
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You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
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I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.
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Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
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When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.
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As more and more of our world becomes part of the wireless network, I see the mobile phone becoming a central command station for everything around us.
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I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting - to a certain extent, even sculpting. It's a wonderful medium to work with as a craftsman because it's such so rich and so varied and so expressive.
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As a coach, you feel like you're letting everybody down.
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When I'm on the red carpet, I'm prepared for [the attention.] But the worst thing is on planes, when you're asleep and you're woken up by a camera flashing. That's a little bit much. But what do you do? It's a part of [being famous]. Unfortunately.
