Yannick Noah Quotes
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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William and I feel that every child deserves to be supported through difficult times in their lives.
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We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
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I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
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I'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be heard when you have five women. I've always been this loud and over the top as a person because I just want to be heard.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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Let's face it; people are doing everything online these days. So if they are going to watch my movies, I'm happy as long as it's being bought legally and being exhibited legally, as long as they are paying even a small fee for it. I'm just anti-piracy. If it's a legitimate way of watching film online, then I'm very happy.
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
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If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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A lot of people want to discredit me.
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The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple.
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As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.
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True love never forces.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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'These Macedonians,' said he, 'are a rude and clownish people, that call a spade a spade.'
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Your child is happy. What else could you want?
