Francis Ngannou Quotes
The most important thing for me is to win the fight and not what people are going to say.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
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I never thought of myself as a comedian. That is a label – make me laugh. I want to make you think.
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In art, S. Bridget is usually represented with her perpetual flame as a symbol, sometimes with a column of fire, said to have been seen above her head when she took the veil.
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You know what would be a fun game? If Pac-Man was on a beach, and he was chomping coconuts. You could see how tan you could get your Pac-Man.
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My mom is an elementary school music teacher, a pianist, and a singer, and my dad plays guitar - he's a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. My mom does musical theater, too. All of those influences were around.
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There are a lot of kicks out there in taekwondo that are flashy, so I like all of those. My favourite is probably chop because I'm better at it than the others. But I like a good back kick if I can nail it well.
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I think there's a song for every moment. I don't think there's one right love song.
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There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I'm just really excited about. There seems to be a big gap between the generation above and us; it seems to be quite radically different in terms of form and approach.
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I'm continually working on myself. Nothing ever actually works.
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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, 'Wow. This is fun.'
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Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.
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You don't have to show people how successful you are.
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Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children.
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The most important thing for me is to win the fight and not what people are going to say.
