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Yannick Noah
French
Athlete
About the author
Your child is happy. What else could you want?
Yannick Noah,
French
Athlete
#Want
To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
Yannick Noah,
French
Athlete
#Taxes
You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
Yannick Noah,
French
Athlete
#Environment
#Echo
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,
French
Athlete
#Problems
#Day
We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.
Yannick Noah,
French
Athlete
#Saying
#France
People judged my work without to have listened to it.
Yannick Noah,
French
Athlete
#People
#Work
The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.
Yannick Noah,
French
Athlete
#Want
I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
Yannick Noah,
French
Athlete
#Positive
#Karma
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,
French
Athlete
#People
#Support
#Years
#Opinion
#Media
In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.
Yannick Noah,
French
Athlete
#Europe
I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.
Yannick Noah,
French
Athlete
#Career
#Past
#Beginning
#Weight
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.
Yannick Noah,
French
Athlete
#Friends
Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
Yannick Noah,
French
Athlete
#Time
#People
#Faith
#Europe
#America
Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.
Yannick Noah,
French
Athlete
Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
Yannick Noah,
French
Athlete
#Being
#Waiting
At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
Yannick Noah,
French
Athlete
#Want
#Time
#People
#Music
Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
Yannick Noah,
French
Athlete
#Time
#Play
#First
In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.
Yannick Noah,
French
Athlete
#Right
I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.
Yannick Noah,
French
Athlete
#Years
#Old