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 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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By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits out at that time that were bona fide hits.
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I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.
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If you have a business idea that's extremely easy to copy, that can often become something of a challenge or problem.
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When you died I didn't weep nor dream but knew you like a god breathe in each healing we begin.
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Some people will always gossip.
