Yolandi Visser Quotes
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.
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There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.
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The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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What we need to do is lay out a plan and a vision that people can believe in. And getting into Twitter fights with the president is not exactly where we're going to find progress as a nation.
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I can say to the German people that the United States has been good for Germany. Has looked out for Germany. Has provided security for Germany. Has helped rebuilt Germany. And unify Germany.
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It doesn't matter if people take the music for free, because you can't illegally download a ticket to a concert.
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
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Well, you know, I just - I believe marriage should between a man and a woman.
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People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.
