Yael Naim Quotes
I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
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The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.
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Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
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I've become more and more comfortable with occasionally dressing sexier, but I still hope to express a 'cool' type of sensuality.
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To little men, gods send little things.
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To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.
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I think, the argument sometimes that I've had with folks who are much more interested in sort of race-specific programs is less an argument about what is practically achievable and sometimes maybe more an argument of "We want society to see what's happened, and internalize it, and answer it in demonstrable ways." And those impulses I very much understand.
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I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
