Tatyana Ali Quotes
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.
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I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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As an individual, I need space and can't be locked in a house with strangers. I would do 'Bigg Boss' if I get to co-host it with Salman Khan.
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I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
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I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.
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If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
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I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.
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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
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Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.
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I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not to be, I'll always be in London.
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I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.
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I really don't have a celebrity crush.
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I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.
