Beyonce (Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter) Quotes

My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

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• I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.

  

  Saina Nehwal
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  • Think
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• The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

  

  Ian Hunter
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  • Idea

• I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • Up
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• When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.

  

  J. R. Celski
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• Our government should not be spying on the electronic communications of American citizens. Nor should our iPhones or Android devices be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• My grandma passed in '78, and that's the year I started recording. It's also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it's funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.

  

  Carlene Carter
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• Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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  • Message

• When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.

  

  S. E. Hinton
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  • Guy

• If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Technology
  • Strategy
  • Sand

• Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

  

  Frances Wright
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• I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
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• Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Great
  • Value

• I am always friendly with my co-actors and even other actresses, too.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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  • Co-actors

• I often think my boyfriend is going to leave me just from seeing how I talk to the dog. But you know, when you are talking to your dog, you are accessing this softer side of you. Everything else melts away.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
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• As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.

  

  Zendaya
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• Any brute will demand his right to be a law unto himself, beating his wife and his children as he pleases, and defend that right with his father’s rifle and think himself a patriot.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Children
  • Father
  • Law

• All of this is men’s genetic heritage. However, men’s genetic heritage is in conflict with their genetic future.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Future

• God has brought us where we are, to consider the work we may do in the world, as well as at home.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • World
  • Work
  • God

• Being honest, if I had a daughter I wouldn't want her listening to a Nicki Minaj CD until she was a certain age. Even when I meet my fans and they tell me they are 12, I cringe a little. I always say, 'Listen. I don't want you saying the bad words, put school first.'

  

  Nicki Minaj
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  • Bad

• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Women
  • War

• Lee Morgan used to stand behind me when I was playing a ballad and he'd be hollering, "Play the pretty notes, man, play the pretty notes." I thought I was playing the pretty notes, but you know, things like that help you to reach a little further.

  

  Gary Bartz
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• Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Sometimes
  • Spirit
  • Behinds

• I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Live
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• My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

  

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