Anna Diop Quotes
Growing up, I wanted to be a journalist. I was in love with Lisa Ling, who's a broadcast journalist and who travels the world. I used to read all of her articles and watch her when she'd go to China or South Africa or Australia. I thought that was the coolest job because she got to travel and tell people's stories.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business.
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There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.
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I don't believe that we should never not talk to people we don't agree with politically. If you can make that person laugh, it's the first step to getting him to listen to change their mind.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a journalist. I was in love with Lisa Ling, who's a broadcast journalist and who travels the world. I used to read all of her articles and watch her when she'd go to China or South Africa or Australia. I thought that was the coolest job because she got to travel and tell people's stories.
