"I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth."

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Source : Miriam Makeba, Nomsa Mwamuka (2004). “Makeba: The Miriam Makeba Story”, Ste Pub

Miriam Makeba

“Give me safety, or give me death.”
“This nation is on a course where if we don't do something about it, get federal situation, the fiscal policy [under control], we're Greece. We're a banana republic. Our status as a nation is threatened by what we've got coming at us in the area of deficit and debt. And it's only a few more years, at the most, that we have to work with here before the market says, 'Sorry, your currency is something we can not continue to defend.'”

Source : "'We're Greece' in a Few Years: Sen. Gregg". www.cnbc.com. November 3, 2010.
“It's really weird to be in more than one franchise because an actor's life is so nomadic, and so it's a real privilege to get back together with people.”

Source : Source: www.moviesonline.ca
“He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.”
“Why does man need a meaning to life?â€”
“No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.”

Source : Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.128
“When we moved to Florida we experienced it on a communal level, in a more structured religious setting, with temples and different worships. That sense of community is very much interconnected with music for us, and thinking of music as this living organism that offers a space of mystical participation with forces outside yourself.”
“What are we out at the park for except to win?”

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