Nicki Minaj (Onika Tanya Maraj) Quotes

A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you to come and be apart of their creativity. At that time, they were eager and on the streets selling drugs or in the studio making music. That was a big part of our lives were I grew up.

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• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

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• I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.

  

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• Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

  

  Young Jeezy
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• I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.

  

  Flume
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• I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.

  

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• I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.

  

  Tao Lin
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• Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

  

  Vik Muniz
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• The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

  

  Tadao Ando
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• In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.

  

  Damian Woetzel
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• Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
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• I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.

  

  Victoria Pratt
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• The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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• MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

  

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• Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.

  

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• Now, national conventions are largely an excuse for companies and party leaders to throw parties for delegates to attend, to network and have a good time.

  

  Bob Barr
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• Your highs can't be too high, and your lows can't be too low, because you have to pick back up and move on.

  

  Anne Donovan
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• I feel like I have this different opportunity that not a lot of athletes may have. It's the fact that I'm Korean-American, and the Olympics are going to be in Korea, but I'm also riding for the States. I feel like I got really lucky that it got all pieced together - my first Olympics, being in Korea where most of my family is.

  

  Chloe Kim
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• If you're going to wake up early all the time, and you're working hard, and you're working out, sometimes you're going to get tired. It's OK. It's acceptable - somewhat. We're all human, unfortunately.

  

  Jocko Willink
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• The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers.

  

  Baha'u'llah
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• A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you to come and be apart of their creativity. At that time, they were eager and on the streets selling drugs or in the studio making music. That was a big part of our lives were I grew up.

  

  Nicki Minaj
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