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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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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This journey from non-dancer to dancer has given me a lot of self-confidence and inner strength. I feel like a different person.
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It's not about the way you look
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We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunity for everyone.
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If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did. Who had ever heard of the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz? He is not politically involved. Octavio Paz is a great poet, also not politically involved. The Nobel Prize is for literature, for the quality of work over the years.
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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.
