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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Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
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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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My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.
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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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For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
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In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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We owe it to ourselves and to our policy makers to have a high standard of public debate about the future of our energy supplies.
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I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.
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In science, the kind of evidence matters; all unlikelihoods are not created equal.
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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.
