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

• Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist...

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Rebel

• I saw first-hand that all schools are not created equal, and the students shouldn't have to go without all of the materials that they need for a great education.

  

  Charles Best
  • Great
  • Education
  • Hand

• I live in New York City, and I'm making huge action movies. The people that make huge action movies live in L.A., and they're surrounded by other people who make huge action movies. I'm surrounded by people making documentaries!

  

  Doug Liman
  • People
  • Live
  • Action

• One would have to be as unenlightened as an angel or an idiot to imagine that the human escapade could turn out well.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Angel

• If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.

  

  Israel Horovitz
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Turn

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

  

  Neneh Cherry
  • Rebel