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've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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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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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
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Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.
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I got a call saying that George Lucas wanted to meet me. Of all the phone calls I've received - Oliver Stone wants to meet you; Spike Lee wants to meet you - that was the one call I never in a million years thought was going to happen.
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Yorkie has officially retired about 5 times... The man's a clown... People are going on about the game and agents and directors of football and managers losing their jobs, but we should be worried about people like him... Clowns. That's the last time I'm going to say clown... If he's the vice-president of FIFA, God help us all.
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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.