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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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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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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None of my movies have ever made any money, so it's not about commercial success for me. It's always the same thing. I want to create something valuable, something unusual and different that the world has never seen.
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Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.
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All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.
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On the Internet, people do not know each other, they don’t have common leaders, sometimes not even a common political goal. But they come together on certain issues. I think that is a miracle. It never happened in the past. Without the Internet, I would not even be Ai Weiwei today. I would just be an artist somewhere doing my shows.
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Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
