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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• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

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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 highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
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• We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
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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.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Career
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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.'

  

  Sam Levenson
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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.

  

  Camille Paglia
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  • Dog
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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.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Science
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• My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
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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.

  

  Patrick Ness
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• When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

  

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• People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.

  

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• Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Life
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• I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

  

  Zoe Saldana
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  • Political
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• There’s people all over these parts, and maybe beyond, who think, as you said, that nobody can be wise alone. So these people try to hold to each other.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Alone
  • Wise

• 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.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Expectations
  • Capable