Neneh Cherry (Neneh Mariann Karlsson) Quotes
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
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I choose to express myself.
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The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.
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‘When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what is right.’
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No man can add one dollar to his bank account by worrying.
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Until the last nuclear weapon is eliminated, more must also be done to reduce the risk of a detonation. Nuclear-armed states should reduce the number of warheads on high alert and be clearer about the actions they are taking to prevent accidents.
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I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.
