Youssou N'Dour Quotes
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I'm painfully middle class.
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We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.
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Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.
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If we don't watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not be long before the art of fine cooking is viewed as the invention of a handful of snobs. . . . A whole aspect of living well, of civilization itself, is threatened with extinction.
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Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
