Nicki Minaj (Onika Tanya Maraj) Quotes

I came to win, to conquer, to thrive

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• By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Fun
  • Boy
  • Story

• I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • God
  • Day
  • Politics

• Surf culture and surfing for me are two completely different things. Surf culture has become very – it's a very commercial, competitive thing, fashionable. With all due respect to the 'Surfer Dude' movie, I think the 'Surfer Dude' movie reflects that, reflects what surfing's become, but I come from a place where the surf industry began.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Culture
  • Respect
  • Commercial

• Sometimes you have success and not so much success versus certain people.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • People
  • Success
  • Sometimes

• I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Body

• God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • God
  • Alone
  • Taken

• Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Water

• Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • Truth

• All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit - the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Great
  • History

• King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Life
  • Great
  • Success

• I love Greek mythology, I love gladiators, I love war stuff.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • War
  • Greek

• Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Business
  • Model

• In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.

  

  Dawn Steel

• You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • People
  • Control

• Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.

  

  Dustin Diamond
  • Music

• I advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute.

  

  Dita Von Teese

• I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Family
  • Father
  • Political

• I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Believe
  • Earth
  • Enough

• I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Society
  • Poverty
  • Wealth

• We need women who are at the head of a boardroom, like at the head of the White House, at the head of kind of major scientific enterprises so that little girls everywhere can then think, you know what? I can do that, I want to do that, I will do that.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Women
  • House

• Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

  

  Nelson Mandela

• The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover.

  

  Christine Lahti
  • Different

• I came to win, to conquer, to thrive

  

  Nicki Minaj