Cheikh Anta Diop Quotes
Egypt’s prestige abroad was so intact that the “King” of Tyre declared: “All industries came from Egypt and all sciences first shone forth there” (cf. Pirenne, II, 505).
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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My hair is naturally blond and thin, so I like to give it some texture. Sexy, dirty bedhead is good for blonds.
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I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.
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I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records.
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In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs.
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I am not as I once was. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. I do not know who I am anymore. I must try to remember.
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It helps to know there is going to be continuity.
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The UN platform was created precisely for this, to seek compromise, to communicate with one another. So it will definitely be nice if we make use of this platform.
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The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.
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Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.
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Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say My tears gainsay; for every word I speak, Ye see I drink the water of my eye.
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If I do it in one school attendance area, then I do it in all 21 school attendance areas.
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I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
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We don't take on battles so small we know we can win, we take on battles so big we dare to dream of winning them.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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Optimism is true moral courage.
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I know nothing about technology.
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As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.
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A good friend of mine told me you should take a break and you should go see the world. Go somewhere. That is when I chose to go to Egypt, and so I took this beautiful trip to Egypt. It was the first time ever in my whole life I took three weeks off, and I sailed down the Nile and I saw the tombs and the temples, and I experienced a place that was so magical and so incredibly powerful and intelligent and inspiring.
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Egypt’s prestige abroad was so intact that the “King” of Tyre declared: “All industries came from Egypt and all sciences first shone forth there” (cf. Pirenne, II, 505).
