Andris Nelsons Quotes
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.
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There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.
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That was my dream, to compete against the best surfers in the best waves. But as a kid, it all seemed so unattainable. It was this big dream, but deep down I never thought it could really happen. But my parents always believed I could do it, and they helped me get through all the stages and take all the right steps.
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I know it's silly, but I still think I'm 28.
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Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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When I began modelling in my late teens, I started to earn a lot of money very, very quickly, but I'd never been shown how to manage it properly.
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I'm constantly being visually stimulated.
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I always felt like I could go to my mom and speak to her about anything. We have a great relationship.
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Some people will always gossip.
