"Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist."

-- Youssou N'Dour

#Art Quotes #Play Quotes #Political Quotes

“I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.”
“It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.”
“I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.”
“Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.”
“Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication”
“Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.”
“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up”
“We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.”

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