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Miriam Makeba

"For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there."

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"For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there."

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"And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film."

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"I just want to thank all my fans for their loyalty and support-for coming out to the shows and buying the CDs."

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"Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student."

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"I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant."

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"I'm afraid of buying a house or anything, 'cause if there's one paparazzi outside for one day, then they'll never leave."

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"Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse."

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"I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing."

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"I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him."

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"I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats!"

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"I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator."

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"It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now."
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"In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home."
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"And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources."
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"Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time."
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