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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Control yourself. You'll spurt.
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Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of humanity, with a body like some plate in Godey's book of fashion, and a mind after the type of Father Gregory's pattern daughters, loaded down with the traditions, proprieties, and sentimentalities of generations of silly mothers and grandmothers, but left free to be, to grow, to feel, to think, to act. Development is one thing, that system of cramping, restraining, torturing, perverting, and mystifying, called education, is quite another.
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Drivers are pretty well set, but crew chiefs, they change their business cards like they change their pants.
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But – Michael, you said you didn’t know Oliver, and–” “I didn’t, until he killed me. We were never formally introduced.
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I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.
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They are mostly unidentified combatants killed with machetes.
