Angelique Kidjo (Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo) Quotes

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

Angelique Kidjo

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• I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • Up
  • Great
  • Because

• My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Parents
  • Painful

• After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Country
  • Home

• Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Days

• You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Work
  • High
  • Night

• Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Art

• I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Time
  • Real
  • Fun

• It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Interesting
  • Villain

• In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Family
  • Silence

• The mountains dwindled away into hills covered with a dark, stunted scrub. Beyond them the land flattened out to the horizon, a treeless immensity of white and gray-green, a spongy mossiness flecked with a million icy ponds. The wind blew, sometimes hard, sometimes harder.

  

  Leigh Brackett
  • Dark
  • Wind
  • Green

• We are youngAnd we are friends of time.

  

  Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • Time
  • Friends

• No wonder you guys lost.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Lost
  • Wonder

• I definitely stood out when I was in high school.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • School
  • High

• Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Thanks

• When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I've met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

  

  The Weeknd
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I'm happy to do interviews from time to time, but I don't find them that necessary - and that hasn't seemed to have affected people's understanding of our work.

  

  Phoebe Philo
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm very low-key. I don't really blend in, so it's difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it's a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Home
  • Movie
  • House

• There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever.

  

  Jim McKay
  • People

• Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Comfort

• The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Mind
  • Society

• The more we engage in society, the more firsts we have, then there will be a moment when we have no more firsts. Or maybe there will always be new firsts.

  

  Juan Felipe Herrera
  • Society
  • Moment
  • Engage

• I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Work
  • Like
  • Hoard

• You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

  

  Angelique Kidjo
  • Society
  • Part
  • Transform