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Nicki Minaj Quotes

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

Nicki Minaj

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 8, 1982

Topics

Mother Business Focus Beginning Key

I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea - as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless - and bound for Ecuador.

Jim Elliot

Sea School I Am Sail Library Sails

I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.

Joe Scarborough

Change Time Politics Lie Flying Mud

I learned early on to stay away from gossip magazines and reviews. That stuff just makes you unhappy, and I know actors that read everything that's written about them and they're miserable. You can choose what to let into your life.

John Travolta

Life Unhappy You Choose Early Know

There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them.

Stephen Cohen

Hope History Day Memory Inspire

All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.

Robert Darnton

Police Mind America Letters Without

My mother was not what anyone would call sweet, and she wasn't conventional. When my brother couldn't find his shoes one morning, she said, 'Oh, for God's sake, it won't kill him not to have shoes for a day,' and sent him to school without them.

Rosemary Mahoney

Mother Morning God Shoes Day School

Her old Grannie and subject must be the first to kiss her hand.

Mary of Teck

Kiss Hand Old First Be The First

The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.

Minnie Driver

Hollywood Bizarre Masonic Aspect

Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to interject, interrupt, and opine. They have something to say about everything, little of it complimentary. They are the most impertinent animals I have ever known.

Jon Katz

Moment Animal World Ready Say Talk

Any opportunity I can get to come back to Memphis, I try to get it.

DeAngelo Williams

Opportunity Back I Can Try Memphis

Everyone in Tel Aviv knows Yosl Bergner. In 2006, the mayor made him a Freeman of the City. Now he carries a card which allows him to park his car anywhere with impunity. If only he could drive.

Clive Sinclair

Car City Drive Now Him Park

At least is was a victory and at least we won.

Bobby Moore

Victory Won Least