Kamla Persad-Bissessar Quotes
When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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People have to evolve.
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I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.
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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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Gerard Butler is like a big kid; he's so nice.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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I've always ignored the labels people put on things.
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I hated school, didn't like the discipline.
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I have plenty of dream roles because there is so much I want to do, but my dream year would be to be in a single-camera comedy and then, on my hiatus, film a little low-budget indie drama. That would be a dream 12-month period. A dream role depends on having good material and working with people that I can learn from.
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Some people they simply just want to hear you. And others actually have things they want to share and talk with you about. So it's important for me to be as strong as I can when I leave home so I can hold space for all of it.
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Overhearing people's conversations about art - that's always entertaining.
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The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
