Yannick Quotes

#1. I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.

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#2. At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

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#3. After a desperate fight, to know to congratulate your opponent, if he has beaten you, to shake his hand and go for a drink with him, in my eyes these things are particularly important.

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#4. You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

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#5. If caught wearing white and you stain, stand and spread out your skirt, let the boys read into it shapes like blots of ink.

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#6. Get the moon to phase with you. The tide to lap at your door. Call it Rose or Aunty, but never what it is.

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#7. I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

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#8. You will always see less as you grow older, otherwise you would not want to go on.

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#9. I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

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#10. But she is not looking down, but looking up maybe, some kind of fortune teller who can read futures in passing dark clouds.

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#11. To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

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#12. Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

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#13. Your child is happy. What else could you want?

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#14. You sometimes feel that reading books is the only way you can think, as if the reading occupied one part of your brain and this allowed the other part to go free and become more active. You need that time to read in order to think. That's all there is to it.

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#15. Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

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#16. She looks like what fishermen don't want after hours spent cutting debris out of their nets.

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#17. When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.

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#18. People judged my work without to have listened to it.

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#19. My mother still thinks of things to do for him. Light church candles, name a star, send money to somewhere.

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#20. I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

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#21. We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

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#22. In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

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#23. In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.

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#24. It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.

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#25. The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.

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#26. Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.

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#27. I look at his bloodshot eyes and wonder if it affects what he sees, everything covered by a veil of red lace that his hands can't ever lift.

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#28. Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

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#29. I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.

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#30. Her fingers are still cool, like ivory on piano keys and they are that pale and he looks at her face, drawn and pale too.

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