Youssou N'Dour Quotes

Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!

Youssou N'Dour

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Robert Brustein

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I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!

Molly Shannon

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I think Jay Leno is fantastic.

Brian L. Roberts

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God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Alfred Jarry

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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'

William S. Burroughs

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I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

Shia LaBeouf

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Developing a good, healthy culture is extremely important at a startup. Culture reflects the essence of a startup's operation because it directly affects the success of a company's hiring practices and overall strategy.

Scott Weiss

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It seems like people don't learn from the past.

Thomas Peterffy

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It can not be done; it shall not be done! I speak for the great masses of the Mississippi Valley, and those west of it, when I say you shall not do it!

Richard Parks Bland

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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

Noam Chomsky

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I sailed around Europe and lived with the Karen tribe in Thailand for a month.

Lily Nicksay

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What I've found in my career is that 70 to 75 percent of comics are nice and have some sense of social skills, but there are those who end up in comedy because they don't know how to socialize. I don't want to deal with that group.

Lewis Black

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