Sampha Quotes
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!
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A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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Use a corrector to do all the heavy lifting under the eyes, not concealer. I spent years re-applying and layering concealer and Touche Eclat under there, when what I really needed was a good, peachy-toned corrector.
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I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.
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God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.
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Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
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Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
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There are some things a chappie's mind absolutely refuses to picture, and Aunt Julia singing 'Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay' is one of them.
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'My God, oh my God,' he said. 'Six hundred men.'
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Tränenreiche Männer sind gut. Verlasse mich jeder, der trocknen Herzens, trockner Augen ist!
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In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
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I was writing rap at 12 years old and began writing songs as a 20-year-old. I think I wrote my first song in the winter of 2008-2009, when I was in Buenos Aires. I was writing about growing up and my boys back home.
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Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
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Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.
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Boxing is a great example of it, but in football, sometimes you're taking greater hits than boxers. When you have one man going full speed against another man, and those heads are colliding, it's just the fact of science you're going to have results.
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I just thought it made sense to call a book 'Not Garbage,' even though the majority of it was going to be the scraps from people's studios; like newspaper clippings, weird drawings and stuff they might not necessarily show as artists.
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I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.
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In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.
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Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.
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Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.
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You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.
