Alpha Conde Quotes
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
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When you are in a growth company, you have to really open people's eyes to the bigger possibilities so they think differently. Once they understand how to define success and what their role is in success, they make better decisions, and you can push decision-making down.
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My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
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Like it or not, we are all liars. Thank goodness. Imagine going through life where everyone is completely honest: 'Those shoes... look like something out of an early Cyndi Lauper video.' 'Your daughter... looks like the spawn of Honey Boo Boo and Elmer Fudd.'
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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I'm not trying to represent all Muslim women. I'm trying to give voice to the silent majority. Unfortunately, I'm a bit loony.
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One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.
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Ebola has shown that the world is not ready to deal with an epidemic on this scale.
