Babatunde Adebimpe Quotes

The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.

Babatunde Adebimpe

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• I'm happiest when I'm moving.

  

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• I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.

  

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• Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.

  

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• The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.

  

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• Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.

  

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• I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.

  

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• The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

  

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  • Up
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• With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.

  

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• When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

  

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• It's a tragedy. It was tragedy for Freddie Gray and the family. It was a tragedy for the city. And we're still trying to figure out how it happened and why it happened.

  

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• In Britain, you know there are people waiting to tear your stuff apart, so it's important for me to know that my music has subtleties and depth to it.

  

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  • People
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• I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.

  

  Tamron Hall
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• The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

  

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• My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.

  

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• I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer, the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with, as well as being an economist of considerable repute.

  

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• Ty Walker doesn't wear suits very much. He's not used to being that pressed and conservative businessman. So, he's self-conscious anyway about walking around in these skinny-legged suits, and then for someone to sort of assume that's who he is, it really bothers him.

  

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• The information weapon, of course, is used in critical moments, and war is always a critical moment.

  

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• When you're doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.

  

  Ben Barnes
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• Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.

  

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• If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

  

  Lynda Barry
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• The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
  • Taken
  • Finals
  • Going Away