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I don't care about what people think about me.

Angelique Kidjo

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What you do that makes you happy and that makes your family, the people that love you, their opinion counts more than anybody out there that is putting a category on you or defining you according to the old phantasmal.
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You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.
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If you're on stage and you're more concerned about your dress, and then you think that the public is accessory, you got nothing to do there.
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I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.
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It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.
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I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.
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You can fall, but you can rise also.
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I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.
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Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.
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