Yaya Toure Quotes
The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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I come from a great home and fully supportive family that helped to nurture my dreams. A lot of people don't have those same things in their household.
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'