Enele Sopoaga Quotes
Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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I don't like controversy.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.
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It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.
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We've had a great change. Dr King saw to that. I was so grateful to see the 'colored only' signs come off the water fountains and bathrooms in the south. But the struggle lives on.
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We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.
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I feel really lucky to get to do comedy, and music, at all. I want to do as much as I can.
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Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.
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Americans want to be represented by the best candidate, not the one with the richest friends.
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The woman's tour is very tough for all of the players.
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Not many artists or bands go platinum every year, from what people have told me, so it's an honor to have so many fans. A million people, that's a lot of people! Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Justin Timberlake sell a few million, and so hopefully I'll make my way up to that.
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When you get to see the world, it changes you. You realise that there are all kinds of people out there.
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I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep.
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It's a hard thing for me to wrap my mind around the C word: celebrity. Rock stars are celebrities because they're larger than life. As an actor, you have to play the everyman and the everygirl. If you start treating people in the real world like assistants, that's not a good look. But my friends keep me grounded.
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In Western Samoa native theory and vocabulary recognized the real pervert who was incapable of normal heterosexual response.
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Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.
