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 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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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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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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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.
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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.
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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My traducers propound my alleged malefaction as though I have spewed venom on women for half a century. But only a madman would go to the trouble of writing 31 books in order to affirm his hatred.
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I was a boy toy for a bunch of women.
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I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
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We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently.
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...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.
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Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
