Neneh Cherry (Neneh Mariann Karlsson) Quotes

Both my parents were working-class and had dreams of making the world a better place. It's pretty powerful, being able to reflect back their beliefs.

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• And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

  

  Ed Gillespie
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• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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• Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

  

  Caprice Bourret
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• No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.

  

  Taylor Dayne
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• We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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• I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
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• Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
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• The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.

  

  Cam
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• I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.

  

  Natalie Maines
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• All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

  

  Jack Kerouac
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• There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.

  

  Patrick Warburton
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• A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
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• Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
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• I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• When text messaging first came out, you could only text within your network, whatever operator you had. It seems silly now, but once those walls came down, all sorts of applications and services were built on top of that. It ended up being good for everybody.

  

  Peggy Johnson
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• I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.

  

  John Fairchild
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• Qu'as-tu fait, ô toi que voilàPleurant sans cesse,Dis, qu'as-tu fait, toi que voilàDe ta jeunesse?

  

  Paul Verlaine

• The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

  

  George Osborne
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• Both my parents were working-class and had dreams of making the world a better place. It's pretty powerful, being able to reflect back their beliefs.

  

  Neneh Cherry
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Parents