Angelique Kidjo (Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo) Quotes
It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
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I love 'Glee.'
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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I am just trying to be a good, protective mother. I want to give Bertie as normal a childhood as possible while preserving his privacy.
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The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
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I lived a very don't-ask, don't-tell life.
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Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.
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If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.
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It's kind of epic to see four women really be physically and mentally strong, in themselves and in their lives. That's what 'Widows' is.
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Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in our border security. After infiltrating our country, the terrorists were able to conceal their real identities, and thereby plot their attacks without fear of being apprehended.
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It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
