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Miriam Makeba Quotes

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

Miriam Makeba

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: south african
Birth: March 4, 1932

Topics

Age World You Know Want Run

I don't need to marry again. I've been married twice, and I love it when it works, but these days we live until we're 80 and marriages are jolly long.

Joanna Trollope

Love Live Long Need Days Twice

I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.

Jessica Lange

Voice Teachers Study Over Years

I can watch 'Mission: Impossible' all day every day. Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt is so hot.

Meagan Tandy

Day Impossible Mission Every Day Hot

After a hard day, choosing to do something to help you feel better - as opposed to staying in a bad mood - is a healthy skill.

Amy Morin

Day Better Feel Help You Bad

Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.

Rory McIlroy

Money I Am Building Think Golf Look

A depressed person is often a person who will push others away. If you are pushed away and pushed away and pushed away, you have to have an enormous amount of inner resources to keep going back.

Miriam Toews

Keep Going Push You Back Person

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

Lois Lowry

Book Think Become Single Gone Some

Smart development invests in insulation, efficient cars, and ever-renewed sources of energy. Dumb growth crashes around looking for more oil.

Donella Meadows

Growth Smart Looking Energy Dumb

In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.

China Mieville

Heart Question Up Fiction Dragons

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.

Brian Eno

Guitar You New Sound Turn Up

Quiet diplomacy is far more effective than public posturing.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Quiet More Diplomacy Far Effective

I do not think I am successful just because I have money. I'm successful because I love who I am and I have no regrets, and I'm successful because I have a great heart and I have compassion and I care and I would be happy with or without money.

Suze Orman

Love Heart Great Money Compassion