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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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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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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If we believe that a person seeking refuge is to be pitied, feared, despised, and looked down upon, we are doing ourselves a disservice.
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I try to always motivate young kids who want to be singers or actors or whatever it is they want to be that anything is possible with hard work. It doesn't matter where you're from or what language you speak - as long as you work hard, you can achieve those goals.
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It's a new skill to have two children that want you at the same time.
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Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.
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Film sets are a strange place, but an exciting place. I do love my work; I really enjoy going to work. But if you just spend all your time on film sets or even on stage, you can become a Michael Jackson figure, living in your own little universe.
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Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.
