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Miriam Makeba

"You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important."

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"You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important."

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"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."

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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

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"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."

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"Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."

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Miriam Makeba
"Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better."

Work

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Miriam Makeba
"But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world."

World

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Miriam Makeba
"You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important."

People

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Miriam Makeba
"I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me."

Country

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Miriam Makeba
"I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career."

Music

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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."

Buying

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Miriam Makeba
"It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now."

Home

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Miriam Makeba
"And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite."

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Miriam Makeba
"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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Miriam Makeba
"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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