Yael Naim Quotes

Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

Yael Naim

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: February 6, 1978

Topics

MusicSimpleLanguageLookPersonal

I nicknamed everyone in the gym. It was easier than remembering their names.

Joe Gold

GymNamesEveryoneRememberingThan

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That's why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, 'Bye!'

Jerry Seinfeld

FlyingThinkEndYouWhyWay

What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.

John Boyne

ClassicDifficultDefineFarCourse

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

InspirationalHeartWorldTradition

I love weights, but it's too far to get to the gym. So I make the farm my gym: I split wood and haul tires and do work on the farm, and that's sort of my weight training portion.

Ann Bancroft

WorkLoveTrainingFarmGymWood

In 1961, an official U.S. commission oversaw thousands of events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Civil War. All 50 states joined in, but not surprisingly, the biggest events took place in the 11 southern states that made up the defeated Confederacy.

Amanda Foreman

AnniversaryWarCelebrateAmerican

My financial service business is the absolute best thing I have done to empower the poor. I run many charities and fight many political causes, but my financial service company is the greatest gift I've given.

Russell Simmons

BusinessServiceBestFightGift

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

Mary Leakey

CuriousUpThingsFoundLikedDraw

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.

Judith Butler

NowAlwaysPositionSeemsUnderstood

Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.

Jason Sudeikis

WorkWalkDayMeHouseRock

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

Jonas Gahr Store

SympathyWinDeepEnemiesClaim

Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, there's a lot of eye-rolling... it just breeds inertia. If a director is in control, the crew follow their leader. But the second anyone senses the directors are not sure, people just swoop in.

Christine Vachon

LeaderPeopleControlLostFollow

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