Youssou N'Dour Quotes
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'
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I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
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Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
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I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.
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When I'm a bit sad, I often go for a drive in the country, quite fast with my music up.
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Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.
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Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
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I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'
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As you ride in a steeplechase, and you're on the horse, going quite fast, you think, 'That's quite a big fence...' But trust the horse, and don't give him any reason to doubt you.
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I think that anybody who thinks science is going to explain everything in biological systems, or in physical cosmology, et cetera, is actually mistaken, because I think within science - if correctly understood - those claims are not being made.
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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Never send a boy to do a woman's job.
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Remember why you are here and why you are alive. Have faith in your dreams no matter how far they might seem.
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Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.
