Nicki Minaj (Onika Tanya Maraj) Quotes
I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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New Year's Eve to Valentine's Day is our peak season, and in many ways, Valentine's Day is our Christmas. Everybody in the world makes the same three New Year's resolutions: health, career and money, and love.
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L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
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I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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If you just casually look at a baby, it doesn't look like there's very much going on there, but they know more and learn more than we would ever have thought. Every single minute is incredibly full of thought and novelty. It's easy as adults to take for granted everything it took to arrive at the state where we are.
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That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner.
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As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'
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Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.
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Popularity isn't an objective in itself. I'm not in this game.
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I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.
