Alpha Conde Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I'm a rapper-singer, or singer-rapper - it's not one before the other. I do both.
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And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.
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It's frightening and glamorous and exciting at the same time. I wouldn't change it for anything! After the bad and sad times in my life, it's something I want to do.
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I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed.
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If you've given away a sense of your own destiny, you need enormous amounts of hierarchy and protection within the structure to make up for what you've given away.
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Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
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The evidence does look like this wasn't just a casual - world leaders don't just pick up the phone and call each other. It does appear that the Donald Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan was a deliberate move, a deliberately provocative move.
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Ebola has shown that the world is not ready to deal with an epidemic on this scale.
