Yannick Noah Quotes
I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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Could you imagine being from Siberia? Like, a small part of Russia, where it's like, 'When was the last time Russia was having a super big international pop star in the U.S.?' I don't know, but I can name a few from Sweden. I think that gives us a lot of confidence in being pop stars because we're like, 'Oh, we actually can. We know we can.'
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.
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Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I wanted to do.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I hope I have a long career, but I really don't think about the future like that. I live, like, for right now, honestly. I take it however it comes.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
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I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
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I'm not the new kid on the block anymore. Writers always use the phrase "aging rocker," and I'm like, "What other option do I have?" You're either aging or you're dead.
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What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.
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I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.
