SZA (Solána Imani Rowe) Quotes
My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years. He was a Black Panther.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things were calibrated for white skin. We've always placed powder on skin to dull the light. But my memory of growing up in Miami is this moist, beautiful black skin.
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A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.
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In my very first term there was an issue that brought us [George Mitchell, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd] together in a very deep, emotional, and personal level.It was called 'spousal impoverishment' and it meant that for one person [to go into] a nursing home, the family [ ], could go near bankruptcy, and then they'd end up with a lien on the family farm or the home. And so I wanted to change that.
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The number one cause of unfulfilled potential is never deciding that NOW matters more than any other time in your life.
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My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years. He was a Black Panther.
