Babatunde Adebimpe Quotes
One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewarm carrots back there.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.
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Man has injured every animal he has touched.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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I use a lot of sunblock, which is something I learned from my mother at a young age - to stay out of the sun and be careful of skin cancer. We live in a time where global warming is at its maximum level. The ozone is destroyed, and our skin is exposed to sunbeams on a daily basis.
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One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewarm carrots back there.
