Zeresenay Alemseged Quotes
Selam is our most complete skeleton of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago. She belongs to the species known as Australopithecus afarensis.
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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Cuban Americans have little in common with immigrants from Mexico and Central America, and often their priorities don't align. If it seems like Cuban Americans don't have to play by the same rules as everyone else, that's probably because they don't.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city.
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There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'to do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.
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You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
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Selam is our most complete skeleton of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago. She belongs to the species known as Australopithecus afarensis.
