"Senegal needs a renaissance."

--

Youssou N'Dour

#Needs Quotes #Renaissance Quotes

“When people ask you to do stuff, it's not your idea anymore, so it's tough to get behind it.”
“I'd be a sucker for a guy who wrote me a song,â€ I said. â€œLike Beth or Rosanna or Sara. Or Sharona. Is that too much to ask? To be somebody's Sharona?”
“I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?”

Source : "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.
“I love horseback riding. I still do it.”
“I'm glad to be a role model, but beyond that I'm a flawed human being, someone who continues to deal with my body image and what my purpose is on the planet.”
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”

Source : Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1835, Delphi Classics
“I know enough to know that when you're in a pickle... call Mom.”
“Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.”

Source : Francine du Plessix Gray (1983). “World Without End”, Playboy Mass Market Paperbacks

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