Khoudia Diop Quotes
I was bullied a lot, being a kid, so I feel like I'm standing out because I realize who I really am.
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'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.
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Being an offensive lineman, you always have the mindset of being an unsung hero - a lot of the people who look at the game follow the ball.
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I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
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I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
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My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
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I'm very grateful for social media. I think it has shown people my true nature, and through that has come a book deal, and I think it certainly contributes to people's view of me as a person with a sense of humor, which is only helpful in my industry.
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When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.
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In a time where there are divides between cultures and races, I would love to use my position to show that we are all the same inside and working together is the key to moving forward.
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There is always room at the top - after the investigation.
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They'd better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants.
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I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
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I really want my music to go mainstream.
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I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.
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I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
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I never for a moment considered not doing the show. When I did the show I became very emotional. Some of the lyrics suddenly took on an entirely different meaning. Words like, 'as if we never said goodbye' became more real.
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Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot.
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[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.
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Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on.
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I had been writing professionally since 1988.
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It's great to fall head over heels in love at a fast pace, and nothing's more romantic, but you need to look after yourself.
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I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.
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I was bullied a lot, being a kid, so I feel like I'm standing out because I realize who I really am.
