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

— Yannick Noah

#i #make #me #music #one time

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#confiscation #conquest #had #history #invariably

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. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#any #deeply #did #european #felt

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

— Yannick Noah

#career #felt #i #past #singer

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

— Yannick Noah

#healers #still #stories #tell #villages

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. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#day #does #every #every day #helped

Your child is happy. What else could you want? ↗

— Yannick Noah

#could #else #happy #want #you

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. ↗

— Alex Noble

#am #been #day #essence #good

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#me #moment #question #right #seemed

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#cheerfulness #discontent #failure #i #indeed