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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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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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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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!
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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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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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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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In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.
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If you can get really good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.
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I never intended on moving to 'The Good Wife' permanently, but in terms of a next move and something to do to make myself feel good, this was a great opportunity.
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I want the kids to know that it's not a myth that somebody from their city plays and wins in the NBA. I just want to influence them to work hard and do whatever they want to do in life, whether it's to be a basketball player or scientist... if they believe in themselves, they can do anything.
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Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction writers (allegedly the most foretelling futurists) cannot/will not create a space and time in which women get far beyond the role of space stewardess.
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I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.
