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

• 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

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

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • War
  • Greek

• 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 hate to say 'chain restaurant,' but we're sort of a corporation now. How do we defy that concept, where people assume each restaurant can't be good?

  

  David Chang
  • People
  • Good
  • Hate

• Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • History
  • Democracy

• Like any decent researcher, I throw away 90% of my research.

  

  Kevin Crossley-Holland

• None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • Life

• O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Time
  • Existence
  • Changing

• Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Better
  • Someone
  • Cynicism

• I don't have to build up strength; I have been blessed with it. I do lift weights and train hard, but I am a very special individual - a very special man with very special talent and very special power. I can get any man - any man - out of there in a matter of seconds. That is the thing I love about myself.

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • Up
  • Power
  • Blessed

• Just getting out of your town seems to be a pervasive thing in England. But I don't want to keep grinding the axe forever, it's boring.

  

  Gary Jarman
  • Forever
  • Boring
  • Seems

• I came to win, to conquer, to thrive

  

  Nicki Minaj