Nicki Minaj (Onika Tanya Maraj) Quotes

You gotta be a beast, that’s the only way they’ll respect you.

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• Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Simple
  • Human
  • Difficult

• I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Want
  • Learned
  • Lesson

• I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Hard
  • Word
  • Worked

• Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

  

  Sallust
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Wish

• When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Growing
  • Value

• I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • World
  • Hate
  • Support

• I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Life
  • Paris
  • Bitter

• Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Going
  • Bed
  • Before

• Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Time
  • Comfort
  • Fools

• All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • Nothing
  • Run
  • They Say

• I should have felt pity, but I felt only contempt. I knew had it been a girl she would have mourned less, and it angered me.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • She
  • Girl

• Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Education

• No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

• Careless their merits or their faults to scan,His pity gave ere charity began.Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Pride
  • Charity

• This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

  

  Pitbull
  • Business

• I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game.

  

  Lily James
  • Work
  • Game
  • Interesting

• Whenever I start something, I will always do everything I can to be the best at it.

  

  Anne-Marie

• I founded Minted in 2007 with the desire to use 'crowd-sourcing' to bring designs from the best emerging and independent designers in the world to consumers.

  

  Mariam Naficy
  • World
  • Desire
  • Independent

• Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

  

  James Buchan
  • Wisdom

• I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

  

  Edward Appleton
  • Long
  • Mind

• It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don't really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I'm free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it's, 'Wow, that was brilliant,' and if I do something bad, it just goes away.

  

  Lena Olin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • She
  • Guy
  • Mom

• I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.

  

  John Bolton
  • People
  • Party

• You gotta be a beast, that’s the only way they’ll respect you.

  

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