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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When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoever annoys others must not be with them, if this isolation is the absolute result and cannot be avoided, in the child's mind a basis is laid for the experience that one must be alone when one makes oneself unpleasant or disagreeable.
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I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.
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The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to get back to that, away from this kind of cheap political rhetoric of Right and Left.
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So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always believed too much in words
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Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.