Achille Mbembe Quotes

To create is, first and foremost, to create time.

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• Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Now

• I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Music
  • Moments

• From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Time
  • Good
  • Words

• I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'?

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Long
  • Character

• You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Balance

• I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • Time
  • Job
  • Working

• We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Time
  • Work
  • Focus

• When I have time, I'll be a good girl and do my chores.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • Time
  • Good
  • Girl

• In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • Opinion

• If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• The relational picture of space and time has implications that are as radical as those of natural selection, not only for science but for our perspective on who we are and how we came to exist in this evolving universe of relations.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Time
  • Science
  • Space

• I love having boyfriends. A girl can wait for the right man to come along – but in the meantime that doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

  

  Cher Sonny & Cher
  • Time
  • She
  • Girl

• Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Die

• I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad.

  

  Brian J. White
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• When I think of 'Mad Dog Time,' I think of the fact that I got to drive fast cars all day long up in Canada. That was really fun. We were on these back roads with these great cars.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• When I read 'Ray' for the first time, I had just quit. When I read 'The Last King of Scotland,' I had just quit. I hadn't quite quit when I read 'Scandal,' but I was feeling really unfulfilled as an actor.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • King

• A lot of people who were the best in their fields. I was fortunate enough to be friends with Sammy Davis, Jr. - I spent a lot of time with Sammy. I was over at his house almost every night. Those people were very special and very special for me.

  

  James William Ercolan
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• This is an American tragedy of enormous proportions and it's going to take a long time to bring it back to where it was let alone better.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Time
  • Long
  • American

• I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do?

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Night

• Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.

  

  Samantha Power
  • History
  • Space
  • Government

• The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • Women
  • Party
  • Parties

• We brought Discovery back in great shape. The crew was very anxious to walk around and see what the outside looks like and it looks fantastic.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Discovery
  • Fantastic
  • Looks Like

• To create is, first and foremost, to create time.

  

  Achille Mbembe
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