Hamadoun Toure Quotes
Nearly 1,000 dead -- I cannot remember a time when so many were killed in such a short space of time.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.
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Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
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Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.
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If you look at the first TV stuff I did years ago, I've a pretty chubby look about me. I went at it quite hard in the gym at the time. If any footage of me ever came out from those days, I would genuinely die. I did step aerobics to lose the weight, and then I literally ran and ran the weight off on a treadmill.
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My first deepening of spirituality came when I was 6, when I was moved from my grandmother and sent to live with my mother - whom I really did not know - who had moved to Milwaukee. Something inside myself knew that I was never going to see my grandmother again - I would be wasting my time to live in that space of wanting that.
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You shouldn't take a customer who's buying an album, who's happy buying an album, and try to tell them that what they're doing is wrong.
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Nearly 1,000 dead -- I cannot remember a time when so many were killed in such a short space of time.
