"The first time I experienced war, I thought……" — Emmanuel Jal
"The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending."
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Emmanuel Jal
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40 Quotes by Emmanuel Jal
Emmanuel Jal has 40 quotes on this site.
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Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper
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Music is actually where I see heaven.
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The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a…
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To tell my story, to touch lives.
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Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.
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I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't…
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I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.
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I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.
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I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.
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Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.
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I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to…
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In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with…
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of…
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Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
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The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older…
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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
— Bernardo Bertolucci
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From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to…
— Mary J. Blige
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Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the…
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
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I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists…
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One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both…
— Jeff Bridges
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I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a…
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