Abdoulaye Wade Quotes
We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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I've never been specifically attached to westerns, but there are those I like - one of the best westerns I've seen is 'Unforgiven.' I think the genre has something extremely powerful that can allow them to talk about good and evil in a very straight way.
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Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.
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I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.
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I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?
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I don't regret anything, but that doesn't mean that I don't look back and think, 'What was I thinking?'
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
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Live in the precious present.
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The physicist's concept of nothing-the vacuum... began as empty space-the void... turned into a stagnant ether through which all the motions of the Universe swam, vanished in Einstein's hands, then re-emerged in the twentieth-century quantum picture of how Nature works.
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Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
