Ali Bongo Ondimba Quotes
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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.
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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
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You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.
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There's nothing like simple spicy egg bhurji.
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When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
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Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.
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Hollywood does tend to portray CIA officers as totally the honey trap. Looks matter as they do in any profession. But the most important thing for me when I was working was blending into my environment.
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I will be working with David Lynch when I'm 80.
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What could be better than working with people you love?
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Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; Landscape plotted and pieced-fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.
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I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.
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Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.
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That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
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There is nothing that you can do without working.
