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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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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For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?
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I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it's all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things.
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Rolling Stone: What was your headspace at the time of Superunknown? A lot of the lyrics are dark.
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No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought.
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You get from the world what you give to the world.
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Ebola has shown that the world is not ready to deal with an epidemic on this scale.
