Ama Ata Aidoo Quotes
Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.
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For me, it is all about people having jobs, and that is why I make no apology for having focused relentlessly on employment and job creation.
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I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
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People will accomplish anything if they believe the goal is worth it - they are worth it and that they are capable of achieving it - and that's exactly what my 'Maximize Your Life' show will do.
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Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.
