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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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
Jack Nicholson
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Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh.
Michael B. Jordan
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Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on.
George Jung
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Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
Bernard Crick
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Sometimes I forget to say 'cut' because I am so lost in the performance.
Michelle MacLaren
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
Youssou N'Dour
