Christiana Figueres Quotes
When you have a vision of where you need to go, it sounds utopian. But when you get to the tipping point, your understanding switches.
Christiana Figueres
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
Francesca Annis
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
Jacob Epstein
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
Wayne Dyer
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
Fran Drescher
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I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?
Queen Latifah
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I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.
Youssef Ziedan
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If you think about it, I was at college, and then three months later, I was a massive pop star. It's stress-making, especially when you're a bit of an oddball as I was, the black sheep left to your own devices, and then suddenly everyone's interested in you.
Alison Moyet
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As a community organizer who holds a degree in history, I understand the fascination with history. However, there is a tendency for many of us to get engrossed in the recounting of our history, which often amounts to purely intellectual activity without material action.
Opal Tometi
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I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has to be countered with knowledge and understanding.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too committed to a vision to allow mere facts to interfere with their beliefs, and the sense of superiority that those beliefs give them.
Thomas Sowell
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Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.
Eleonora Duse
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When you have a vision of where you need to go, it sounds utopian. But when you get to the tipping point, your understanding switches.
Christiana Figueres
