Nicki Minaj (Onika Tanya Maraj) Quotes
May the Lord protect me as the world gets hectic. My voice projected, my life reflected.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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I did one touring show with Horatio Sanz. We went to, I think it was Iowa State University, and we were in this field house, so people were sitting on the floor. It started out with 2,500 people in there. We delivered the most mediocre improv, and it went from a crowd of 2,500 to 250 people in the course of 45 minutes. It was grim.
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Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.
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To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip your enemies of their greatest weapon. Even if they break our bodies and drain our blood, we are unvanquished. Our goal was never to live; our goal is to love. It is the goal of all truly noble men and women. Give all that can be given. Give even your life itself.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible - literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know.
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In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
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May the Lord protect me as the world gets hectic. My voice projected, my life reflected.
