Neneh Cherry (Neneh Mariann Karlsson) Quotes

I'm a bit of a rebel, and I always will be.

Neneh Cherry

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• Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Woman
  • Silence
  • Own

• Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Problems
  • Japan
  • Cowardice

• The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.

  

  Waldemar Januszczak
  • World
  • Men
  • Thinking

• What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.

  

  B. B. King
  • History
  • Nature
  • Me

• I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • You
  • Back

• Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Strong
  • Change
  • Peace

• I was raised on farms by people who didn't have Wal-Mart. They had to make their own sleds, harnesses, clothing, etc.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • People
  • Own
  • Clothing

• I love shopping in New York just because you walk around and find a little store you've never saw before, and you're like, 'Oh what's that? This is my new favorite place.' I love that about New York.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Like
  • Place
  • Shopping

• I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Want
  • House
  • Beginning

• What's going on outside? It was really nice - all the fans out there with big signs.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Nice

• She grunted. 'Nothing unusual?''That’s right.''Well, if you ask me, that’s pretty unusual right there, if a body was smart enough to notice it.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Pretty
  • Smart
  • Unusual

• And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Nature
  • Free
  • Fate

• Hail hero, hail hero, child of your fate Come into the kitchen don't stand by the gate And show us your wisdom before it's too late

  

  Gordon Lightfoot
  • Wisdom
  • Hero
  • Fate

• Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.

  

  Chrysippus
  • World
  • Good
  • Nature

• Genes themselves are made of bits.

  

  James Gleick

• Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.

  

  Caroline Corr
  • Time

• I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.

  

  Elif Safak
  • People
  • Childhood

• I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Done
  • Rock

• I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Black
  • Years

• There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me far behind. I didn't really want to keep up. I wanted my stardom without the usual trimmings. Because of this, I was branded a rebel at the very least. But I don't regret that for a minute. My appetite was my own and I simply wouldn't have it any other way.

  

  Veronica Lake
  • Up
  • Doubt
  • Regret

• It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • World
  • She

• Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

  

  Frederic Bastiat
  • Life
  • Men

• To me, for politicians to claim that we have an answer to every problem is silly. When you listen to some politicians reeling off their prepared answers, you almost fall for it. They’re all experts. But nothing ever happens.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Fall
  • Silly

• I'm a bit of a rebel, and I always will be.

  

  Neneh Cherry
  • Rebel