Youssou N'Dour Quotes
World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
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You don't take on anything unless there's fear.
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
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There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
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One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
