Nicki Minaj (Onika Tanya Maraj) Quotes

You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
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  • Year
  • Soldier

• It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • Light
  • Day

• A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Money
  • Love

• People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Think
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• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Future
  • Want

• I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Person
  • Nation
  • Pressured

• I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Home
  • Experience

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Think
  • Football

• I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Strong
  • Running
  • Leadership

• I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Always
  • Insecurity
  • Out

• Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Only
  • Truly
  • Spontaneity

• I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Money
  • Me
  • Looking

• My album is very uplifting and positive and fun. That was my mission - to get people up on their feet and escape the seriousness of life.

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Dream
  • Boy
  • Superhero

• At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Day

• Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Famous

• When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Parents

• Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People

• I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I have a nostalgia for the years I was growing up and experiencing new things for the first time - so the late '80s and early '90s are always fascinating to me. Those were the times that I was being informed about a lot of my tastes, and so the memories are fused with a lot of emotion.

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• Uniformity is the friend of scalability.

  

  Karl Iagnemma
  • Friend

• Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of 'health insurance,' which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill.

  

  John Cornyn
  • Up
  • Done
  • Free

• You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Up
  • Success