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When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow. -- Emmanuel Jal
When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer. -- Emmanuel Jal
I still visit my village quite often, as my parents and one of my sisters live there, but also I feel the village is more of an isolated, unreal part of me. -- Volker Bertelmann
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As Antiquus's son, I was next in line to be the leader of my villageBut leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
I'm doing a collaborative project with another artist, Mary Hamill. My project is to gather the oral history of war widows, starting with the women of my village, Kop Nymit. -- Chath Piersath
As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi. -- Pankaj Mishra
I guess I am handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain and in my village, I could be the hottest guy. In L.A., I'm ... average? -- Bobby Lee
I was brought up in the north of Scotland, and where I lived was so lowly populated, it was used as a low-flying area by the Air Force, so lots of exciting aircraft used to fly over my village. -- David Mackay
One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community. -- Ban Ki-moon
Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer. -- Thomas Perry
I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side. -- Gregory Corso
I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. -- David Attenborough
I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty. -- Roberto Benigni
I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village. -- Michael Palin
My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters. -- Carly Simon
On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center. -- Yochai Benkler
I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition. -- Rainn Wilson
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns. -- Abbas Kiarostami
My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in. -- Denis Leary
My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages. -- Roger Bannister
I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now. -- Katherine Moennig
On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'. -- Yang Lan
There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with news, gossip, opinions and potential excitement. -- Lisa Unger
My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a lot of things she herself isn't aware is a punch line. -- Kapil Sharma
I was privileged because my father was a policeman, and we lived in town. Many people in Malawi are from typical villages. My grandmother insisted I should be in both worlds, and so I needed to be acquainted with village life. -- Joyce Banda
In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in my head and I live in that village, and it's true. When I start writing a book, characters from previous books reappear. All my emotions, my mind, my heart, my dreams, everything becomes connected with a new book, and nothing else really matters. -- Isabel Allende
The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village. -- Andrea Gibson
After my grandfather began to be successful, he returned to the village where he was born and founded a primary school. -- Guler Sabanci
I could've shot the whole East Village, because it was and is my neighborhood. But Seventh Street is precious to me. -- Josh Pais
You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy. -- Ian Botham
I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection. -- Lisa Unger
Dream Song:As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village. -- Frances Densmore
I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay. -- Jason Reeves
I live in New York, but I still get the village gossip. My apartment is a crash pad for so many Singaporean cousins and friends. -- Kevin Kwan
I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern day slavery came from. -- David Batstone
Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own. -- William Faulkner
I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office. -- Howard Shore
I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began. -- Laurie Lee
I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village cafÃ©. -- Augusten Burroughs
I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares. -- Giles Foden
Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens, Victoria was my queen. -- Ray Davies
There's nothing nicer than coming back to your village, where people like my mum's friends take the mick out of me. I prefer that to the craziness of Hollywood. -- Jeremy Irvine
I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the 'Village Vanguard.' -- Andrew Wyatt

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