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Youssou N'Dour Quotes

World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality:
Birth: October 1, 1959

Topics

Music Great Together World Places

So the name of a group has to say something. The name has to be strong.

Be Strong Strong Name Say Group

I feel very blessed to have such wonderful cheerleaders and champions of my work.

Work Blessed Feel Champions I Feel

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

Good Beginning Yourself People You

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

Education Wisdom Children Parents

I eat apples whole, seeds and all... yes, like a horse.

Seeds Horse Eat Yes Apples Whole

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

Leadership Someone Achieve Want

For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has had in its history.

Hope History Style Optimism Country

In New York, you collect a thousand encounters a year, a passel of handshakes, a zillion air-kisses, and boatloads of business cards that you pitch into your purse and eventually deposit your chewing gum into. Amid this break-neck montage of glancing contacts, I'm tormented by the constant thrumming fear of being fingered as a flake.

Fear Business New York Year You New

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.

Michael Johnson

Life Determination Impossible Think

When I was married to an abuser, he'd tell me he wouldn't have to get so angry if only I'd be less demanding, more supportive, more understanding. I hid the truth from everyone, especially myself.

Truth Myself Angry Me Understanding

Some people can be president, some people can speak, some people, you know, anything that's positive, man - a dentist, a doctor. Just hang in there and never give up, and find out what is your talent. First you got to find your talent and just stick with your talent, and I guarantee you'll get there, man.

Positive Never Give Up Man Talent

My investigation found Sallie Mae put student borrowers into expensive subprime loans that it knew were going to fail.

Student Expensive Fail Going Knew

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