Jane Birkin Quotes
I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.
Quotes to Explore
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People have to evolve.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.
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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
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We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
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When I became a mother of two, I decided to work with brands that remind me of family because they're my No. 1 priority. Now I'm partnering with Puffs to encourage people to get out and not hibernate inside. People should enjoy the holiday season, and if you do have a runny nose or the sniffles, Puffs is there to take care of your symptoms.
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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
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Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.
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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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I am prepared to waive the privilege against self-incrimination and to tell you everything you wish to know about my views or actions if your committee will agree to refrain from asking me to name other people. If the committee is unwilling to give me this assurance, I will be forced to plead the privilege of the fifth amendment at the hearing.
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You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
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It sounded as if the streets were running, And then the streets stood still.
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People would ask for my autograph because they had never seen a woman behind the camera before.
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All I want to do in my life is be known as me and for what I do.
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I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.
