Abderrahmane Sissako Quotes
Music is human vibration. It makes humans vibrate and takes them some place else.
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.
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I've been very lucky.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.
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I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.
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I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.
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We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.
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We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
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I have always had huge respect for comedians/comediennes. It's because comedy is very hard to portray.
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We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of 'their' works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box.
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I think I learned the most from Eminem because I spent the most time with him in the studio. Going to L.A. with Dre was a learning experience, just seeing how the dude works and being up-close and personal with a dude whose music I appreciated growing up.
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Music is human vibration. It makes humans vibrate and takes them some place else.
