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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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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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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I'm a capri pant girl.
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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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The Premier League is a championship that amazes me. I like the playing style and the teams.
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If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.
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For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.
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A free market was never meant to be a free licence to take whatever you can get, however you can get it.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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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.
