Daniel Espinosa Quotes
I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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Africa has no future.
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I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.
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I like risky stuff.
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Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
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I was thinking as a little girl growing up that I would be there. When I look at whether we can go to Mars, it's definitely something we can do.
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I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
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To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
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Some people just don't like you; you cannot satisfy everyone. But I've got a lot of supportive fans – people who do like me, do enjoy what I do.
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It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.
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I sometimes let people down, especially when I was younger. I was cavalier about what people told me. Part of growing up is learning when to shut up.
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Four soiled bedsheets sewn together to make a screen. One for spittle. One for urine. One for semen. One for blood. All for tears.
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If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
