Youssou N'Dour Quotes
My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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All I do is sit at home and watch Netflix.
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My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
