Sade Adu Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.
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Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.
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Life goes on, but in two temporal directions at once, the future unable to escape the grip of a memory laden with grief.
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We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic.
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Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.
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The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.
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I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.
