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

Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.

Angelique Kidjo

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• In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Life
  • Details
  • Negotiation

• To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • World
  • May
  • You

• In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Play
  • Unique
  • Trump

• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Being
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• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Knowledge
  • Decision
  • Democracy

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• I'm not really into weight training.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Training
  • Really
  • Weight

• Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Child
  • Find

• The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Time
  • Art
  • Space

• To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Good
  • Alone
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• I'd end all of the wars. I'd bring all of the troops home and make sure that they're taken care of for life - for what they did protecting our country.

  

  Warren G
  • Life
  • Country
  • Home

• I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Want
  • Coach
  • Who

• Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • You
  • Know
  • Presence

• No agency is better than its account executives.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Better
  • Account
  • Agency

• For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Giving
  • Financial
  • Stress

• Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Business

• How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?

  

  Zell Miller
  • People
  • Great

• Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Forever
  • Growth
  • Spirit

• If I interview somebody for an hour, I'm looking for four amazing minutes.

  

  Jon Ronson
  • Amazing

• I give away about 50 percent of my income, so my, you know, desire to give back to the country is pretty strong and I intend to give away a lot more. I've signed the giving pledge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, and I intend to give away the bulk of my money.

  

  David Rubenstein
  • Country
  • Money
  • Pretty

• There is no great difference in reality between one country and another, because it is always people you meet everywhere. They may look different or be dressed differently, they may have a different education or position; but they are all the same. They are all people to be loved.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Different
  • Country

• Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.

  

  Angelique Kidjo
  • Country
  • Education
  • Fool