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Youssou N'Dour Quotes

I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.

Youssou N'Dour

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Sad People Control Political Look

Some argue shareholder capitalism has proven more efficient. It has moved economic resources to where they're most productive, and thereby enabled the economy to grow faster.

Robert Reich

Capitalism Grow More Economy Where

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

Meryl Streep

Old Going Who Very Were

When 'We Will Rock You,' the musical, launched, I was amazed at how successful it was. It attracted a new generation of fans. Freddie would have loved it. He was quite into that sort of stuff.

Roger Taylor

Loved Generation You New Rock Will

My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school.

Rob Lowe

School Law Always Going Law School

There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

Louis Stokes

King Feel Public Domain Names Return

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

Brian Ferneyhough

Practice Me Back Say My Own More

We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either.

Bob Menendez

Service Government Border Over Turn

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.

Brigitte Bardot

Myself Only Wanted

I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it. People in rural places could use the water for irrigation or for drinking.

William Kamkwamba

Water People Think Trying Now Want

No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.

Susie Orbach

Relationship Conflict Without Leaves

The risks of piracy spreading beyond the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, off the Somali coast, and in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore and beyond are substantial.

Peter Middlebrook

Sea Ocean Red Risks Beyond Off

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

Noam Chomsky

I Am Free Judge Enough Violence She