Nicki Minaj (Onika Tanya Maraj) Quotes

I fly with the stars in the skies I am no longer trying to survive.

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• People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • You

• The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • Door

• One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Fall

• And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Trying
  • Character
  • High

• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Friends

• Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology. But to get there, you have to actually invest in R&D. And often that means you have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Powerful

• Seems like we were always running away from President Obama or trying to undo what he's done.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Running

• I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Life
  • Different
  • Trying

• It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Comedy

• Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Why
  • Know
  • Theatre

• Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Time
  • Work
  • Water

• The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Sky
  • White
  • Lake

• I wasn't trying to fit into a thing... it was not like I was like, 'Right, I'm the Han; I'm the Leia; I'm the Luke.' I was just like, 'Okay, I'm Rey, just trying to do me, just trying to do this scene, trying to do the right thing,' and I think that was a huge advantage because I think if not, it would've been a very different thing.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Do The Right Thing

• If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.

  

  Ian St. John
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Him

• I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Deep

• I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Funny

• It's impossible to be someone you're not, so quit trying. I am as passionate about my hobbies as I am about my work and my family. All three are equally important to me at all times.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Work
  • Important
  • Family

• Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.

  

  Marvin Sapp
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Night

• As I get older and maybe a little bit wiser, you realize how much stuff affects your body and what it can do. Cutting out carbs and sweets and trying to eat just proteins and fruits and stuff like that, more natural stuff, is what I have found has had the biggest impact on me.

  

  Jay Cutler
  • Trying
  • Cutting

• Eating smart is all about having an awareness of your body. The most obvious way to do that is by seeing it. So when you're trying to lose weight, spend more time wearing less. I don't think I could eat a plate of nachos naked - could you?

  

  Marisa Miller
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Smart

• I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Friends
  • Press
  • Disappointing

• I fly with the stars in the skies I am no longer trying to survive.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Trying
  • Sky
  • Fly