Gabourey Sidibe Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.
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People have to evolve.
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Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.
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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
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The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
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I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
Garry Kasparov -
The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
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After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.
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Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating?
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
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I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a ritualized behaviour: they simplify or formalize, repeat (sometimes with variation), exaggerate, and elaborate in both space and time for the purpose of attracting attention and provoking and manipulating emotional response.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
