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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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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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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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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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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Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.
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Repetition doesn't create memories. New experiences do.
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As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.
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I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.
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In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.
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Ebola has shown that the world is not ready to deal with an epidemic on this scale.
