Omar Bongo Quotes
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
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I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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Open your mind to every form of beauty
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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The Pure Mind and the Pure Ātman are one and the same thing. Whatever comes up in the Pure Mind is the voice of God.
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I’ve lived the literal meaning of the ‘land of the free’ and ‘home of the brave.’ It’s not corny for me. I feel it in my heart. I feel it in my chest. Even at a ball game, when someone talks during the anthem or doesn’t take off his hat, it pisses me off. I’m not one to be quiet about it, either.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
