Pepa Quotes
For a long time, we got no respect. People thought we just got lucky. They said we were a one-record wonder.
Quotes to Explore
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
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That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.
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People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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We never really set out to talk about California on the album ['California'], it was something that we noticed that was happening about three-quarters of the way through the recording process. We were looking at which songs we thought would make the record and we realised that there was this theme coming through. I think it's just a product of being in California for as long as I have.
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My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and girls. Although they fled to London when I was just three weeks old, the challenges facing women's rights in Iran became ingrained in my social consciousness.
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For a long time, we got no respect. People thought we just got lucky. They said we were a one-record wonder.
