Youssou N'Dour Quotes
I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I want to have a long career.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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I love books.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.
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You have to make one thing a priority and achieve balance that way, rather than trying to do everything all at once.
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The body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.
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I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.
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I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly.
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I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.
