SZA (Solána Imani Rowe) Quotes

I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.

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• I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

  

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• The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.

  

  Hank Johnson
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• Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
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• During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.

  

  J. G. Stedman
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• When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.

  

  Damian Loeb
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• I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.

  

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• An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

  

  Adam Michnik
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• I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.

  

  Harold Ramis
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• You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.

  

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• I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
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• I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.

  

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• Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.

  

  Abraham Verghese
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• I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

  

  Barry Commoner
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• 'Our savior will resurrect us,' said Peggy, 'but I haven’t noticed that Christians end up any less dead at the end of life than heathens.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
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• For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

  

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• And since the day I left Milwaukee,Lyncheburg and Bourbon, FranceBeen makin' a fool out of folksJust like you,And helpin' white people dance.I am medicine and I am poison.I can help you up or make you fall.You had some of the best timesYou'll never remember with me...Alcohol.

  

  Brad Paisley
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• A lot of Viners do more relatable stuff, but I try to stay away from that. I try to maybe take a relatable situation and Bach it up.

  

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• The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.

  

  Odetta Holmes

• I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.

  

  Wallace Shawn
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• If you understand others you are smart. If you understand yourself you are illuminated. If you overcome others you are powerful. If you overcome yourself you have strength. If you know how to be satisfied you are rich. If you can act with vigor, you have a will. If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting. If you die without loss, you are eternal.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.

  

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• In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental patient. Without a touch of crazy, literature can be a desolate place. In the current climate of careful speech, even fearful speech, smoke-free film scripts, thought-free songs, and child-proof locks on American minds, the oft-repeated lament of the arts is "Where have all those wonderful madmen gone?"

  

  Carol O'Connell
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• I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.

  

  SZA