Abdoulaye Wade Quotes
If we are utopists, leave us with our utopias so long as they induce action, so long as they are motivating.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
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I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.
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Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.
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But I love how people who are musical, they know how to dress.
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America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats.
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I was the worst, most sickly kid of all – 30 pounds underweight. The girls used to beat me up. Actually I was a mean kid, early on because I had no self-esteem.
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We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.
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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
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If we are utopists, leave us with our utopias so long as they induce action, so long as they are motivating.
