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

• If we were writing what the fans wanted to see, Betty and Jughead would be the most linear, monotonous narrative of all time.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Time
  • Writing

• You can make a beautiful thing, but there's no problem in it. I like the idea of doing a thing, wrecking a thing, questioning a thing to the point where you have pushed it to the edge, and then recuperating it.

  

  Amy Sillman
  • Beautiful
  • Idea
  • Recuperating

• I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Angry
  • Teenager
  • Rebel

• That was my problem then and it's my problem now; I have a bad attitude. In a nutshell, I fear authority but at the same time I resent it - the authority and my own fear - so I rebel. And writing SF is a way to rebel. … SF is a rebellious art form and it needs writers and readers and bad attitudes - an attitude of 'Why?' or 'How come?' or 'Who says?'

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Why

• Cinderella said to snow white, how does love get so off course? All I wanted was a white knight with a good heart, soft touch, fast horse.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Horse

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

  

  Neneh Cherry
  • Rebel