Nicki Minaj (Onika Tanya Maraj) Quotes
People's expectations of what I'm capable of doing are very low. People have been used to hearing little one-liners and me play around.

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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
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The further from one another, the nearer one can be.
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When I was a kid, the people that used to push other people around, if someone whacked them, then they wouldn't be pushing people around again. But you can't really do that with adults.
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Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.
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People's expectations of what I'm capable of doing are very low. People have been used to hearing little one-liners and me play around.