Nicolas Godin Quotes
Every song is like a reflection of some emotions and words that we wanted to say to someone else, or some currents of life that went through our brains.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
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Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
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In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
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Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood turn cold in sick dismay, and the brain cloud under its weight of nostalgia.
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Every song is like a reflection of some emotions and words that we wanted to say to someone else, or some currents of life that went through our brains.
