Babatunde Adebimpe Quotes
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.
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It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
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The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.
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A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.
