Beyonce (Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter) Quotes

I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.

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• Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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• We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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• I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
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• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
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• I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.

  

  Aaron Paul
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• Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

  

  Calvin Klein
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• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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• Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.

  

  Gary Herbert
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• There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
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• My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.

  

  Vernon Wells
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• There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.

  

  Zach Woodlee
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• Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
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• I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
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• Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
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• I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

  

  Ian K. Smith
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• When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• Everyone has all the power of a bank branch in the palm of their hand. And so in that world of software at scale, theoretically the incremental unit cost of something at scale approaches zero.

  

  Dan Schulman
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• The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
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• When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• When you make a mistake, the ocean gives you an instant reminder. You get punished. If golf clubs could shock you every time you hit the ball wrong, we'd probably learn how to play golf pretty well.

  

  Laird Hamilton
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• I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.

  

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