Chenjerai Hove Quotes
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
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I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.
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My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
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You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.
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Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true.
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Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'
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No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
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I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
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I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.
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It's great to finally win here in Japan. We had a very strong car. Ever since we got off the plane, the car has been responding well.
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I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
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I make every movie and every scene like it could be my last. That's the only way I know how to make cinema that stands on its feet. I have to treat it like that. It has to be life and death stakes.
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A man who runs away from death will run into death.
