Neneh Cherry (Neneh Mariann Karlsson) Quotes
I don't think you can cover a song unless you love it and have a relationship with it. With 'Golden Heart' I felt a sense of responsibility. And when we were recording it in the studio, it felt almost dream-like. Something you might hear if you were in Senegal, with someone singing from the mosque in the morning just as the sun's coming up.
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes. He balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats.
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Sharing is wonderful, but giving - I give, you take - often maintains the power status quo.
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I don't think you can cover a song unless you love it and have a relationship with it. With 'Golden Heart' I felt a sense of responsibility. And when we were recording it in the studio, it felt almost dream-like. Something you might hear if you were in Senegal, with someone singing from the mosque in the morning just as the sun's coming up.
