Nicki Minaj (Onika Tanya Maraj) Quotes
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
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I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.
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You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.
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Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.
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And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.'
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I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.
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The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie.
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Before the storm comes the calm. Hope you can take the heat like LeBron
