Nicki Minaj (Onika Tanya Maraj) Quotes
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
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Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
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There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.
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I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.
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Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse races, election outcomes, and box-office results. But they're bad at predicting things like who will be the next Supreme Court nominee, as that depends on the whim of the president.
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How can an opera express this complicated question of bedsheets?
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Hatin' and I know they got a reason why. I ain't gotta wonder if I wanna lease or buy.
