Jane Birkin Quotes
I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them off to Brittany. It's divine. I'm quite exceptionally lucky. I've never had a week without having all three of my daughters on the telephone.
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
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My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.
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Why is it that when a baby is born, we often refer to him or her as 'the miracle of life' but then we accept mediocrity for our own lives? Where along the way did we lose sight of the miracle that WE are?
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While most people had moved on from children's books, Jake still loved them. They felt cozy like hot chocolate with mini marshmallows or a new jumbo box of Crayola crayons.
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Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.
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I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.
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I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them off to Brittany. It's divine. I'm quite exceptionally lucky. I've never had a week without having all three of my daughters on the telephone.
