Jhene Aiko (Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo) Quotes
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.
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I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
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The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.
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This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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You are responsible for your life. It doesn't matter what your Mama did. It doesn't matter what your Daddy didn't do. You are responsible for your life.
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No music while making love... the sound of the love being made is better than music.
