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
  • Choice

• 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
  • Government

• 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

• Performing live is not my favourite. I am more of a recording person; I prefer to be private. I didn't mind doing videos, even if they came very close with the camera. I can take that, but walking on stage in concert and singing live, that is a bit difficult.

  

  Agnetha Faltskog
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Singing

• We have a 'bad movie' club, and we go to whatever dumb movie is playing in the local theater, then go and have some beers and dinner.

  

  David Benioff
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Dumb

• I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Time
  • Taken
  • Deep

• Politics is a messy business, but campaigning prepares you for governing. It prepares you to get hit, stand strong, and, if necessary, hit back.

  

  James Carville
  • Business
  • Strong

• There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Forget

• 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