Sade Adu Quotes
London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.
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As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.
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The majors are very important, and I would love to win one or many. I'll continue to compete in them hard and win if I can. There's not much more I can say. I'd love to be part of the club of people who've won majors.
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Many people when I started didn't believe I was a good fashion photographer, and probably they still think that.
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The unprecedented leap the Negro made when freed from the oppressing withes of bondage is more than deserving of a high place in history. It can never be chronicled. The world needs to know of what mettle these people are built.
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Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
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London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.
