Hamadoun Toure Quotes
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
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Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.
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Although we use a lot of technology and consume a lot of technology as people of color, we're usually not the ones at the tables doing the creating of it.
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I liked in television that you do some work, then you perform, then you stop and you have a break because they have to set up lights, and then you do some more work. I really liked the pace of it; it really agreed with me. I enjoyed it.
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I've been a job creator. I've worked in the economy myself.
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Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days.
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Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'
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Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.
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NSS has strongly supported competition in both the NASA Commercial Re-supply Services program and the Commercial Crew program.
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I really do know football.
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I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.
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Coincidence is logical.
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I don't like eloquence. If it isn't effective enough to pierce your hide, it's tiresome, and if it is effective enough, it muddles your thoughts.
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...the Indian public are weighed down by their problems, and becoming rather insular in their outlook because of their preoccupation with their own problems. We have to rouse them and make them conscious that we can progress only as a part of the world and as a part of Asia.
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My mom calls me 'baby face.' It's very embarrassing.
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The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see a pattern unfold.
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It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.
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Under Islamic Law, homosexuals - men and women alike - must be killed. Women must be subservient. And people following other religions must be killed. I know that there are many peaceful Muslims who do not adhere to these beliefs. But until these tenants are fully renounced...I cannot advocate any Muslim candidate for President.
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They are mostly unidentified combatants killed with machetes.
