Neneh Cherry (Neneh Mariann Karlsson) Quotes

I've always looked to other women for inspiration and kicks. When a woman stands up and does her thing, it never ceases to excite and inspire me.

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• Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Peace
  • Problems
  • Process

• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • House
  • Reason
  • Constitution

• Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Brothers
  • Park
  • Bench

• Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Good
  • Peace

• The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Up
  • May
  • Theory

• I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Time
  • Fan
  • Supportive

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Father
  • Wrong

• I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Live
  • Want
  • New York

• So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Earth
  • Just
  • saw

• I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Art
  • Small

• The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Important
  • Risk
  • Gun

• We run to win, not just to be in the race.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Win
  • Race
  • Run

• Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Formula One

• The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Thought
  • Contribution

• It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • World
  • Remember
  • Thought

• There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Me
  • Bible
  • Everything

• So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Why
  • You
  • Write

• There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds of music together. We do pop studio sessions, and we'll also play John Cage and more avant-garde work. We're developing a language of music that comes with a lot of different styles, different kinds of work.

  

  Caroline Shaw
  • Work
  • Music
  • Different

• I've always looked to other women for inspiration and kicks. When a woman stands up and does her thing, it never ceases to excite and inspire me.

  

  Neneh Cherry
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