Neneh Cherry (Neneh Mariann Karlsson) Quotes
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I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.
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Many people think that being a graphic designer means going to an expensive art school and buying expensive software that will cost you thousands of dollars. This is so far from the truth. There are hundreds of online education centers that offer top-notch graphic design training.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.
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My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.
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To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.
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When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.
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I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.
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I think, specifically with the horror genre, you have to make it very believable because it can come across ridiculous.
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I've been really fortunate to go from series to series to series.
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The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
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In Cuba, I didn't even have a bicycle.
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I live in a high-rise apartment building, so I just have two cats. They're both pound kitties. One of them, Dick, is an evil, foot-biting cat. When I write a tiger morph, I'm always imagining Dick.
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Livin amuk, never givin a fuck Gimme the keys I'm drunk, and I've never driven a truck.
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I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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If you didn't have someone to hate, you wouldn't know what to do with yourself, would you?
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.
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When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'
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I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.
