Pierre Nicole Quotes
When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
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Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
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We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? We're only human. So I think, with me, I'm not really scared to let people see that - because it's real.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.
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I used to be so scared about, 'Oh, I don't want to show my body.' Now that I've shown it, it doesn't bug me about my moles, or 'This isn't big enough' and 'That's not smooth enough.'
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But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff together as a family, like watching 'Modern Family.'
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Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
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Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
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I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.
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I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal that they've set, that the universe will step in and provide opportunities.
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I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
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One thing I know that's true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.
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Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer.
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Gadgets can be engineered, programs can be designed, institutions can be built, but belief has an organic quality, and it cannot be called into being by fiat. Once a faith is shattered, it takes a long time to grow again - for its soil is experience - and to become effective again.
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What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?
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They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.
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My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.
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It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.
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Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.
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When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.
