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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I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.
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I found that music was my favorite art form.
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When I worked in the White House in the 1970s and '80s, I was often stopped within the White House by agents checking my credentials. They were very observant and would stop anyone they didn't recognize.
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You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.
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Live your lives. Go out; take walks amongst trees.
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Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
