Toussaint Louverture (François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture) Quotes
I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
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I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'
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It's very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I'm not made that way.
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My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.
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Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.
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But she wears short skirts, I wear t-shirts.She's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers,Dreaming 'bout the day when you wake up and findThat what you're lookin' for has been here the whole time.If you could see that I'm the one who understands you,Been here all along so why can't you see?You belong with me;You belong with me.
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I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.
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When we attach ourselves to national identities, then we enter into a cycle of conflict. I didn't choose where I was born or who to be or what people would call me.
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It was the desire to see black girls and our experiences in the books that I was given to read at school that forced me to speak my truth. I launched #1000BlackGirlBooks, a book drive to collect the stories of women of color.
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I mean, I am my own fantasy.
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I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.
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I've learned... That when you're in love, it shows.
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The telling room is, in Spanish, known as 'el contador.'
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.
