"From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Angelique Kidjo

#Community Quotes #Vision Quotes #World Quotes

“Artists should be self-aware of their work and their potential places in people's lives and make their decisions accordingly.”
“Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.”

Source : Luce Irigaray, Stephen Pluhácek (2003). “Between East and West: From Singularity to Community”, p.66, Columbia University Press
“In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.”
“We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be useless and unhappy.”
“Man steps on an ant when he can't catch the fly.”
“No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.”

Source : David Halberstam (2012). “The Powers That Be”, p.538, Open Road Media
“I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.”
“When I was a child, I spoke like a child. When I was an adult, I no longer spoke like a child. When I became old and wise, I spoke again like a child. I wish I had spoken all my life like a child.”

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