Noma Dumezweni Quotes
I've always been curious about the other worlds we can shift into in our imaginations.
Quotes to Explore
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The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.
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I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect.
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The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.
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There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort
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When a certain community is destroyed, in reality it destroys a part of all of us. So there should be a clear recognition that the entire humanity is just one family. Any conflict within humanity should be considered as a family conflict. We must find a solution within this atmosphere.
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We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!
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Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
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The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
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It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.
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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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I come from television where I feel like I'm in people's living rooms every day so it's not crazy for me to think that like a ten year old would know, but, I don't know.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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There was a feeling during the years of George W. Bushs presidency that his gracelessness as well as his appetite for war were linked to his impatience with complexity. He acted from the gut, and was economical with the truth until it disappeared.
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We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'
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With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.
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Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.
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I've always been curious about the other worlds we can shift into in our imaginations.
