Immaculee Ilibagiza Quotes
I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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Time stays, we go.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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People might not view me as competitive as I really am.
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Directing is a rarefied business. And you see very few women pass that Rubicon.
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As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.
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In any given moment, a man's growth is optimized if he leans just beyond his edge, his capacity, his fear. He should not be too lazy, happily stagnating in the zone of security and comfort. Nor should he push far beyond his edge, stressing himself unnecessarily, unable to metabolize his experience. He should lean just slightly beyond the edge of fear and discomfort. Constantly. In everything he does.
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I feel like every role that you take there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection and I don't think it exists but I think striving to do something well is in every single part.
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I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.
