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.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Never
  • Try
  • Research

• 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.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Worry

• Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• 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.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Company
  • Intellectual

• We all have our strengths and our failings.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Our
  • Strengths
  • Failings

• I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Family
  • Always
  • Become

• I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Being
  • Part
  • Aqua

• I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Getting Older

• Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • City
  • Always
  • Changing

• My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Together
  • Cardio
  • Kickboxing

• I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Kids
  • Out
  • Five

• 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.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Man
  • Purpose

• 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.

  

  T-Pain
  • Money
  • Think
  • Parents

• 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?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I'm painfully middle class.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Class
  • Middle
  • Middle-class

• Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Man

• It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Reality
  • Sad

• You don't look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it's irrelevant in any situation - I don't care if my garbageman is gay or straight as long as he picks up the garbage.

  

  Bryan Batt
  • Up
  • Long
  • Gay

• Numb3rs' was a wonderful gift because I had not worked in six months. It was so fun to be on that set doing these crazy things.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator.

  

  Laurie Graham
  • Anonymous

• The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Support

• The more established you are, the less likely you are to do something ridiculous, which is one reason I'm proud to put out a wrestling album. If you stop and you go, 'Well, what if people don't like it?,' if you're already established in what you do, that'll strike fear into your heart.

  

  John Darnielle
  • People
  • Heart
  • Fear

• Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Art
  • Political
  • Stop