Neneh Cherry (Neneh Mariann Karlsson) Quotes
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.
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I would rather make feature movies because, let's face it, you take more time. You take seven days to do a show, and you take three or four months to do a movie.
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The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.
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No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
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Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'
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It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense of being alone in an empty universe, the agonies that thrilled through me as if the blood were running ice-cold through my veins, the disgust with living, the impossibility of dying. Shakespeare himself never described this torture; but he counts it, in Hamlet, among the terrible of all the evils of existence. I had stopped composing; my mind seemed to become feebler as my feelings grew more intense. I did nothing. One power was left to me-to suffer.
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Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.
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My focus in 2010 was on just running fast races. My focus in 2011 was for winning at the World Championships. This year has been a combination of the two so we'll see what kind of time it brings.
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The best revenge is to live well.
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My daughters are my Picassos.
