Hamadoun Toure Quotes
The right to communicate is a basic human right, and I believe that putting that on every national agenda is very important.
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People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.
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I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.
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I believe in eating what I like and sweating it out in the gym.
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
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I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.
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My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.
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Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.
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The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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Whenever I have a job, it's very important for me to handle myself in a way so that when there's another person, a young person of color, or even someone who's my age now, that they'll say, 'Oh, Dule was cool. Yeah, he handled his business. Yeah, he really added to what we did here,' so maybe we'll do it again.
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I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.
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I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
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The right to communicate is a basic human right, and I believe that putting that on every national agenda is very important.
