Meshell Ndegeocello Quotes
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so to be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it. It's all good.
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I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.
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I've always looked old for my age.
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No one wants to read an apologetic book.
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If I wasn't a fighter, I wouldn't be unique.
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My mom does mine because I know I would go tweezer-crazy and wind up with no eyebrows at all.
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One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.
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There is some pretty powerful self-interest in wanting a future that is not just running storm-to-storm. The argument that I make is not that we aren't competitive and selfish and greedy. We are. We're all of these things. We're complicated, competitive, greedy and nasty, and kind and generous and compassionate.
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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
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When I was a little bitty boy, I was a fan of boxing. But in Louisiana, it's football, football, football, and then everything else.
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I've only had success when I'm not trying to. It's that weird thing where if you're trying to impress a girl, you're not going to impress her. But if you aren't trying to impress a girl, you'll probably impress her because you're not trying.
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Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.
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More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.
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Truth be known, President Obama has never been particularly driven by principle. Right after his election, I wrote a column in a few days warning people that even though I voted for Obama, he was not what people were describing him to be. I saw him in the Senate. I saw him in Chicago.
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People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.
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Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind
