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.

Angelique Kidjo

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• One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • You
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• 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.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Man
  • Black
  • Traditions

• I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

  

  Fabrice Luchini
  • Money
  • Man
  • Free

• 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.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Up
  • Important
  • Team

• Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Ocean
  • Big

• 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.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Question
  • End

• 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.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Want
  • Rest

• 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.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Time
  • Beauty
  • Looking

• Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Death
  • Sun

• Each and every one of us has unknowingly played a part in the obesity problem.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Problem
  • U.S.
  • Obesity

• 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.

  

  Earl Browder
  • World
  • War
  • Cold

• In the midst of events there is no perspective.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Perspective

• Even eternally free people are enslaved by the process of living.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Free

• 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.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • People
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

  

  Byron Dorgan
  • Different
  • Smart

• One of the things I love about shooting the most is that there's no specific body type or body build that someone has to have.

  

  Matt Emmons

• As a boy, I found myself drawn to Arthurian legends, and then to Celtic mythology, and then further east into the mysticism of Asian religions.

  

  Mark Frost
  • Boy

• Going to work is probably my favorite thing to do. I do that five days a week for probably ten hours a day, but it doesn't even feel like work and it shouldn't. When you enjoy a job so much like I do, it's not work, it's play.

  

  Kelli Berglund
  • Work
  • Job

• I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't working they were very supportive.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Relationship

• To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied.

  

  Martha Beck
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • High
  • Body
  • Diet

• I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.

  

  Angelique Kidjo
  • Perfect
  • Idea
  • Pure