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You Have To Feel Fortunate To Be One Of The People Whom Parents Don't Mind Their Children Looking Up To. The Older I Get, The More I Think About The Amount Of Influence I Have On These Young Girls, And It's Scary Sometimes. But I Also Understand How Lucky I Am To Have That.

-Beyonce Knowles

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Beyonce Knowles

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You Have To Feel Fortunate To Be One Of The People Whom Parents Don't Mind Their Children Looking Up To. The Older I Get, The More I Think About The Amount Of Influence I Have On These Young Girls, And It's Scary Sometimes. But I Also Understand How Lucky I Am To Have That.

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Goes Around Comes Around

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Destiny's Child Will Always Be No.1 On My List.

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I Want To Be A Legend, Like Celine Dion.

I Think It's Important For Women To Be Around Other Women And Learn From Each Other.

A True Diva Is Graceful, And Talented, And Strong, And Fearless And Brave And Someone With Humility.

I Wanted To Be Famous For My Music And My Talent, And I Always Wished I Could Cut It Out When I Left The Stage.

I've Worn Dresses From All Different Price Ranges, And The Thing That Couture Dresses Have In Common Is That The Fit Is Amazing.

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I Don't Feel Like I Have To Please Anyone. I Feel Free. I Feel Like I'm An Adult. I'm Grown. I Can Do What I Want. I Can Say What I Want. I Can Retire If I Want. That's Why I've Worked Hard.

I Think Music Is Something That Can, And Should, Be Used To Get You Into Different Things Because Eventually What Goes Up Must Come Down -- We're Not Going To Be The Number One Group In The World Forever -- So You Have To Have Something Else To Fall Back On.

I Remember Being In Japan When Destiny's Child Put Out 'independent Women,' And Women There Were Saying How Proud They Were To Have Their Own Jobs, Their Own Independent Thinking, Their Own Goals. It Made Me Feel So Good, And I Realized That One Of My Responsibilities Was To Inspire Women In A Deeper Way.

Make Sure You Have Your Own Life Before Becoming Someone's Wife ~spoken To Oprah In An Interview

This Is Such A Pivotal Moment In My Life! I'm Transitioning As A Woman, And I'm Finally Able To Express Myself As I Am.

Pivotal Moments

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If I Weren't Performing, I'd Be A Beauty Editor Or A Therapist. I Love Creativity, But I Also Love To Help Others. My Mother Was A Hairstylist, And They Listen To Everyone's Problems - Like A Beauty Therapist!

The Great Thing About Mcdonald's Is That They Have A Lot Of Different Things On The Menu. I Love Their Salads.

Thank God I Found The Good In Goodbye

If Everything Was Perfect You Would Never Learn And You Would Never Grow.

You Know What, I'm Very Attracted To Someone Who Makes Me Laugh And Is That Charming. Really, I Could Be Charmed By Anyone. I'm Just A Sucker For Somebody That Is Charming.

I Need To Find A Catchy New Word For Feminism, Right? Like 'bootylicious.'

Happiness Comes From You. No One Else Can Make You Happy. You Make You Happy.

I Fell In Love With Music By Listening To R&b, & It's The Core Of Who I Am.

It Is The Most Powerful Creation To Have Life Growing Inside Of You. There Is No Bigger Gift.

I'm Sure My Priorities Will Change. My Mother Was Such A Great Mother And Is Still Such A Big Part Of My Life. I Want My Kids To Feel That Way About Me. I Want To Be In Their Lives. I Don't Want To Be Away A Lot, So I'm Sure I'll Slow Down. But There Are So Many Amazing People Who Do Both.

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We All Have Special Numbers In Our Lives, And 4 Is That For Me. It's The Day I Was Born. My Mother's Birthday, And A Lot Of My Friends' Birthdays, Are On The Fourth; April 4 Is My Wedding Date.

I Lost Most Of My Weight From Breastfeeding And I Encourage Women To Do It; It's Just So Good For The Baby And Good For Yourself.

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It Was Great For That To Be My First Movie With Such A Wonderful Cast, And Such A Huge Movie. And Now I Get To Do The Fighting Temptations, Which Is Coming Out Soon-it Wasn't Much Of A Character, It Was More Of A Real Person, So I Got To Show More Of My Acting Range.

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I Think It's Healthy For A Person To Be Nervous. It Means You Care - That You Work Hard And Want To Give A Great Performance. You Just Have To Channel That Nervous Energy Into The Show.

I Work Closely With A Number Of Charities From Food Pantries To Drug Rehabilitation To Natural Disaster Relief To Preventing Sexual Exploitation Of Young Girls. It Is One Of The Most Rewarding Things I Do.

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Whenever I Feel Bad, I Use That Feeling To Motivate Me To Work Harder. I Only Allow Myself One Day To Feel Sorry For Myself. When I'm Not Feeling My Best I Ask Myself, 'what Are You Gonna Do About It?' I Use The Negativity To Fuel The Transformation Into A Better Me.

Why Do You Have To Choose What Type Of Woman You Are? Why Do You Have To Label Yourself Anything?

I Don't Try To Hide Our Relationship With Jay-z. There's Nothing To Hide. People See Us, But We Just Don't Talk About It, And I Think That's Absolutely Helped Us. People Give Us Space And Respect Us. The Minute You Start Talking About It, That's All People Want To Talk About. And Then The Really Big Rumors Start Happening.

I Don't Really Like To Call Myself A Brand, And I Don't Like To Think Of Myself As A Brand. I'm A Singer, A Songwriter, A Musician And A Performer. And An Actress, And All The Other Things That I Do. When You Add It All Together, Some Might Call It A Brand, But That's Not My Focus.

With A Lot Of Success Comes A Lot Of Negativity.

When You Love And Accept Yourself, When You Know Who Really Cares About You, And When You Learn From Your Mistakes, Then You Stop Caring About What People Who Don't Know You Think.

I Was Thinkin If I Cheated On My Fears, Broke Up With My Doubts, Got Engaged To My Faith. I Can Marry My Dreams.

There's Ups And Downs In This Love. Got A Lot To Learn In This Love. Through The Good And The Bad, Still Got Love.

If I Hadn't Gone Through Some Of The Painful Experiences In My Life, I Would Not Be Me.

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I Would Want Them To Really Think About How Amazing They Are And How Lucky They Are To Be A Woman. And How Powerful They Are. And I'd Tell Them To Love Every Day Of It Because It's The Biggest Miracle And A Woman That's Able To Give Birth Is The Most Important, Lucky, Fortunate Woman In The World.

I Love My Job, But It’s More Than That: I Need It.

We Have A Lot Of Work To Do, But We Can Get There If We Work Together. Women Are More Than 50 Percent Of The Population And More Than 50 Percent Of Voters. We Must Demand That We All Receive 100 Percent Of The Opportunities.

Working Together

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