Youssou N'Dour Quotes
I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.
Youssou N'Dour
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
Kacey Musgraves
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
Barbara Deming
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
Jack Lemmon
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We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'
Adam McKay
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
Rachel Platten
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
Samuel Goldwyn
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
Ban Ki-moon
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
Eckhart Tolle
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
Macy Gray
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
Caprice Bourret
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Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.
Lord Byron
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
Frances McDormand
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Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.
Stevie Wonder
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I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.
Youssou N'Dour
