Angelique Kidjo (Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo) Quotes
I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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It's so funny, I've done so many projects where I've been interrogated. I guest starred on almost every hour drama, and I'm always the guy they think is the bad guy but then they find out is not.
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The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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Each and every one of us has unknowingly played a part in the obesity problem.
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What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.
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In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.
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Even eternally free people are enslaved by the process of living.
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I would never apologize for photographing rocks. Rocks can be very beautiful. But, yes, people have asked why I don’t put people into my pictures of the natural scene. I respond, 'There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.' That usually doesn’t go over at all.
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It wouldn't be possible because there aren't enough airports for all the men who'd want to flee the country.
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It's been a while since I checked in with Malcolm Gladwell's 'Revisionist History' podcast. The episode 'The King of Tears' suggests the author is raising the bar. His argument is that country music is the genre that makes us cry because, unlike rock, it's not afraid of specifics.
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I snack on fruit and nuts. In the middle of my long workouts, I'll have a protein shake.
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What I do when I act and direct is I do a small version, go a little bigger, do a medium one, an over-the-top one, and then even bigger than that. I'll do six readings of the line. And they're not all the same. Just so I know if I was wrong about what I should have done, I luckily have this more subtle version.
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Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.
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I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.
