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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The foreign policy of the Democrats is bad for Europe and deadly for Hungary. In contrast, the foreign policy of the Republicans and proclaimed by presidential candidate Trump is good for Europe and means life for Hungary.
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.
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I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
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When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.
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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.
