Beyonce (Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter) Quotes
You're everything I thought you never were and nothing like I thought you could've been.
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.
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If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.
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I love flying.
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A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad - and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. It is better to write about other people's poetry.
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As long as I do not take myself too seriously, I should not be too badly off.
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Stevie Wonder makes my heart happy and is my spirit animal. That is all.
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I tried to look around to see what I wanted to do. Football was something I knew the most about.
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It's rare to meet somebody who's secure with herself, confident in who they are, and doesn't have anything to apologize for.
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It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.
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When you're doing what you love, it's not exhausting at all, actually. It's completely empowering and exhilarating.
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Wealthy people in Australia tend to give, and give very quietly.
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Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it nor to assume it is superior or more virtuous.
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I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home - that's the only phone I have. If my phone rang every day like everyone else around me, I would lose my mind.
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I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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Being a best-selling author doesn't make you a millionaire. It's not like Stephen King.
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People who are used to constant attention and flattery become inured to the merely pleasant and become "peak seekers." They expect the highs, and when their unrealistic goals or expectations are not met, they are not simply disappointed, they are devastated.
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I've worked in so many areas -- I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been.
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In Holland and Belgium, and afterwards in England, my happiest moments were in the country. I've always had a passion for the outdoors, for trees, for birds and flowers.
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People will accomplish anything if they believe the goal is worth it - they are worth it and that they are capable of achieving it - and that's exactly what my 'Maximize Your Life' show will do.
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Germany would be the biggest loser in a euro breakup.
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You're everything I thought you never were and nothing like I thought you could've been.
