Nicki Minaj (Onika Tanya Maraj) Quotes
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
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The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
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I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary relevance.
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If we think systematically, we will stop asking, How much is nature worth? We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.
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I've found that the more friends I have, the luckier I am.
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It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.
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The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America.
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Me against enemies, me against friends. Somehow theyboth seem to become one
