Angelique Kidjo (Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo) Quotes

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

Angelique Kidjo

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• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Believe
  • Choice
  • Conformity

• Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Technology
  • Engineering

• Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Real
  • Information

• Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Color
  • Battle
  • Monster

• When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Creative

• It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Movie
  • You
  • Story

• Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant?

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Work
  • Why
  • High

• We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Innovation
  • Thanks
  • Genetic

• We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • School
  • Education
  • Year

• People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Me
  • Husband

• That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • World
  • Science
  • End

• Used games allow more people, specifically younger people, to become game fans because of the lower price point.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Game
  • Games

• The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Free
  • Feeling
  • Light

• I have not been without battle. Bitter affliction was frequent Between me and my cousins. Frequent trials fell Between me and my fellow-countrymen. There was frequent contention Between me and the wretched.

  

  Taliesin
  • Bitter

• To make a bank was a great plot of state;Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Great

• Above all, he wanted to stop being a child without using the cheap disguise of becoming a parent.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Stop

• As ecstatic as I was at the birth of my daughter, I felt selfish bringing her, and later my son, into our screwed-up world.

  

  Jill Greenberg
  • Up
  • World
  • Son

• Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is precisely this glow that we can offer as our specific contribution to international politics.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Country
  • Power
  • Understanding

• Remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget that prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.

  

  Brad Meltzer
  • Remember
  • Brain
  • Waiting

• I love my boys so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary, this love.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Fear

• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Wine
  • Laughter

• Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

  

  Angelique Kidjo
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Weapon