Charlotte Gainsbourg Quotes
Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.
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When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
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A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
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The Humane Society of America thinks Michael Vick should have a dog. I think whoever's in charge there should have a lobotomy.
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
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For hundreds of thousands of years, life was brutal. It still is for a good chunk of the planet. The technology and wealth we enjoy in North America is a very new development in history, and I think we miss the challenges of day-to-day survival in our comparatively easy modern lives. Some people will even create problems if they have none.
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We should listen to both philosophers and scientists, because the philosophical contribution is different from the scientific contribution, and both of them are worthwhile.
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Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.
