Raoul Peck Quotes
[James] Baldwin said the real question is not when there will be the first Negro president in this country. The important question is what country he's going to be the president of.
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I've never worried about life's big questions.
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Seeing that flag means so much: I am inspired by my Queen, my country.
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But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.
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My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.
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We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.
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The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form in American culture has a place to really exhibit itself and dedicated to its own particular conditions of performance.
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I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.
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I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to achieve something big.
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As important as it is for the producers to pay more attention to the female roles, it's more important for us to take control over this situation and define who we are. Because if they just give us the parts, it's their point of view of who we are. What's important is that we define who we are and don't wait for the men to give us the roles.
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The main contribution one can make as a student to one's country in peace or wartime is to study hard and effectively.
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To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.
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That driving incident, I did it with my dad. I'd sit on his lap and I drive. We're country.
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In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.
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If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.
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But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them.
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I really knew when I started photographing I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.
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I think it's an important thing, if you grew up in a neighbourhood that's different from the rest of the world, to remember what was different about your place and keep that in your heart, because that's what made you.
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If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
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If you're not in 'The Washington Post' every day, you might as well not exist.
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I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.
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Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess
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I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
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[James] Baldwin said the real question is not when there will be the first Negro president in this country. The important question is what country he's going to be the president of.
