Emeli Sande (Adele Emily Sandé) Quotes
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that's probably the first question I'd like to ask: 'Why was it necessary?'
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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
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Some weeks there's no writing, and some weeks are full of writing.
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I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
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If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it.
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Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.
