Yaya Toure Quotes
My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.

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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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Those who go along get along.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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The key here is that with planning, you can take advantage of opportunities, where without this planning, you may just watch them pass you by. Like knowing that a key potential customer may be at a conference and putting together a pitch just in case you run into them - or being caught by surprise with nothing coherent to say.
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Of all the 'Black-ish' characters, Zoey is most like my daughter, who goes to U.S.C.
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I'm a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination, it would've been great. The Beatles changed everything for me, and I wanted to be a journalist for 'Rolling Stone.' I'm a big music fan in a Cameron Crowe way, kind of in a spectator way.
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Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.
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My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.