Taiye Selasi Quotes
The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.
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Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
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I made my first movie when I was five.
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
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Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.
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I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
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We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
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Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
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Obamacare was passed months before my first day at Komen.
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I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.
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I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
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I always put my boxing first.
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The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.
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Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.
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I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'
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Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
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I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.
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Down there it's still Summer, I suppose, whereas our sun in Switzerland is already gilding the mountains and the larches are turning yellow, but the colours are wonderful, like old, dark red satin. Down here in the valley the huts stand out in the strongest Paris blue against the yellow fields. Here one really learns the values of the individual colours for the first time. And the harsh, monumental lines of the mountains.
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Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
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The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.
