Neneh Cherry (Neneh Mariann Karlsson) Quotes

I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything.

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• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Lists

• Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • People
  • First
  • Stress

• Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Me
  • Singing
  • Pleasure

• I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Beautiful
  • Stupid
  • Young

• The shows at the Hilton are the most exciting shows I've ever done. The stage is huge, but the theater is intimate, so we can have a magnificent production and still connect with the audience.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Done
  • Most
  • Connect

• Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Country
  • Amazing
  • Entrepreneur

• When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Audience
  • Mirror

• I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Morning

• Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Movies

• It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Laugh
  • Easier

• I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Said

• Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing

• If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Energy
  • Myself
  • Limit

• The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Opportunity
  • Small
  • Confidence

• Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Luck

• As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Long
  • Die
  • Born

• I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • Family
  • School
  • Opportunity

• I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Think
  • Human
  • Profound

• G.O.O.D. Music is just real tastemakers, man. Kanye's a real tastemaker. One thing that I feel is tight about G.O.O.D. is that a lot of people have their own style, and you can see that. My style is different than Pusha's, it's different than Cudi's. But it's also slightly similar 'cause we have some similar tastes.

  

  Big Sean
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• When I was a kid, I liked Superman. When I got a little older, I liked Wolverine. And then I found girls.

  

  Jeremy Sisto
  • Superman

• I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • Work
  • Start

• The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

  

  James Dickey
  • Amazing
  • Crazy
  • Intelligent

• It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything.

  

  Neneh Cherry
  • Amazing