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Africa is destined to anarchy. It is turning into 36 Haitis, with 36 Duvaliers, full of Cadillacs, beggars and snarling dogs.
Georges Bidault
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For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou
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I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
Nelson Mandela
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If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don`t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Nelson Mandela
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If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don`t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Nelson Mandela
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I think that the choice is clear. Oprah Winfrey. You can see a lot of similarities. We`re both geniuses, we`re both incredibly wealthy, and we`ve both started schools in Africa. (on who would play herself in a movie on her life)
Mary Rajskub
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I`ve never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don`t like eating fish. And I know that`s very popular out there in Africa.
Britney Spears
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Traveling is a great love of mine. I love South America and Africa. I`m your ultimate backpacker when I`m away. It`s just me and my backpack. It`s good for getting away from the industry.
Matthew McConaughey
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We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease, and it suffers from poverty as well.
George W. Bush
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We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease, and it suffers from poverty as well.
George W. Bush
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I was not really fond of marriage, of contracts,but when everything became so evident with Karine, all fears and uncertainty disappeared. I only wanted to make her happy. When it was time to arrange everything for the wedding, I was in Africa in a reserva...
Vincent Perez
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Going to South Africa (Country of My Skull (2004)) has changed me utterly. I have seen and heard about acts of cruelty and hatred which are hard to comprehend. But I`ve also seen peace and tranquility like nowhere else on earth.
Juliette Binoche
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Everyone thinks I have an ethnic origin, and could be from North Africa or parts of Asia, or Italy and Spain. But, as far as I know, I`m 100-percent French.
Audrey Tautou
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I represent a lot of people [in Africa] who have no voice at all... They haven`t asked me to represent them. It`s cheeky but I hope they`re glad I do.
Bono
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Mogambo (1953) had three things that interested me. John Ford, Clark Gable, and a trip to Africa with expenses paid. If Mogambo had been made in Arizona, I wouldn`t have done it.
Grace Kelly
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America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles. Meanwhile, we have Africans and African-Americans, contemporary men, with great ...
Djimon Hounsou
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It`s weird with stand-up comedy. It doesn`t really translate worldwide. I want to figure out how do I make it worldwide. Do a special in Africa. Can`t beat that. Pull that off, then I will have done something.
Chris Rock
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My parents taught me about other cultures. I spent time in Africa, Cuba, Europe, Jamaica, the Amazon and that was nothing to do with work.
Alicia Silverstone
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[To Bill Takacs (an IMDb biography writer), who in 1979 met him on a flight to New York from Johannesburg, South Africa (he had been performing in nearby Swaziland) and who addressed him as Mr. Evans (his real name)] "Don`t call me Mr. Evans; only my mini...
Chubby Checker
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One time I got fan mail that was from Africa. It`s really neat.
Scarlett Pomers
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While shooting elephants in Africa, I found the tusks very difficult to remove. But in Alabama, the Tuscaloosa...
Groucho Marx
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I was in Africa when I got the call for Unforgiven (1992). Clint called my agency and made an offer for a western. I was like, `He called for me?` It was jaw-dropping.
Morgan Freeman
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I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.
Alicia Keys
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Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don`t you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.
Javier Bardem
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You would do far more good if you just preached the gospel of Jesus rather than trying to get rid of Third World debt relief - On Bono`s crusade against poverty in Africa.
Stephen Baldwin
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I`d move to Los Angeles if Australia and New Zealand were swallowed up by a huge tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in Europe, and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
Russell Crowe
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People are coming together, as a family, because our brothers and sisters in Africa need our help, so let`s change their worlds. - Live 8 (2005).
Brandon Flowers
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[on filming "The Triangle" (2005) (mini) in South Africa] I filmed Red Water (2003) (TV) in Cape Town, South Africa, so I had a number of local haunts that I`d been to before, and I really, really just love that city and the people are so polite and so wo...
Lou Diamond Phillips
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[on filming "The Triangle" (2005) (mini) in South Africa] I filmed Red Water (2003) (TV) in Cape Town, South Africa, so I had a number of local haunts that I`d been to before, and I really, really just love that city and the people are so polite and so wo...
Lou Diamond Phillips
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Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.
Aiko Uemura
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