Dikembe Mutombo Quotes
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
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The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
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You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.
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I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.
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As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.
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I grew up in a very toxic home.
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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No matter how happy or hopeful I am, I always tend to drift back to that. It's underneath all the music I've ever written... An artist is trying to tell you how he's feeling. And if that accidentally becomes entertaining, it becomes a career.
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The NBA is becoming a global game.
