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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When you are in the big competition for the first time, you grow, and then you lose something when you go back into your own competition.
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It's a blessing to be given a variety of roles to what I call an iconic action actor like myself.
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It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.
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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.
