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.

  

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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.

  

  King Bach
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• The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.

  

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• In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.

  

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• Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

  

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• Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

  

  Keith Henson
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• Being a young actor, I remember missing out on summers, birthday parties, and school trips through high school because I was filming. There are so many things that you have to sacrifice and give up for it.

  

  Dylan Everett
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• I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.

  

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