Youssou N'Dour Quotes
In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
Youssou N'Dour
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
Varley O'Connor
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
Ban Ki-moon
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I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.
R. Kelly
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
Victoria Woodhull
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
Laura Bell Bundy
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
M. H. Abrams
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
Walter Dean Myers
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
Pankaj Mishra
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My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.
Olivia Colman
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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
Sam Worthington
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
Damian Lewis
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
Yakov Smirnoff
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
Natalie Portman
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We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.
Narendra Modi
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What Hollywood truly wants is for people to be themselves. I think what it's designed for is to kind of turn people into something and just make them saleable. But what it really stands for, what it really loves, are people who are unafraid to be themselves, and as you can see, these are people who are excelling in their careers.
Troian Bellisario
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Until House came along I don't think the English made very good dance records, you know, there were very few really good English Rap records, whereas once House came along all of a sudden we started and now I think we probably lead the world, and have overtaken America in dance music.
Norman Quentin Cook
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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
David Hume
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
Youssou N'Dour
