Youssou N'Dour Quotes
I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
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My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
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I have to be able to rap. I don't have the look. I don't have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That's not me. I have to be able to rap - there is no other choice, or else I get eaten alive.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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I've never pretended that I'm not female and vulnerable. To me, it's just being honest.
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I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
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In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.
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In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.
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My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.
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We are not going to abandon Iraq.
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Am I not correct in saying that Iran has never voiced that they are developing a nuclear weapon, nor do they have any intention of using a nuclear weapon against the United States? That's never actually been voiced. I don't know where that has come from, but it hasn't been from Iran.
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I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
