Brigitte Bardot Quotes

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.

Brigitte Bardot

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• I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose that. I think it's possible to maintain a big chunk of that identity so long as you're self-reflective and meaningful about it.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Identity

• As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

  

  Patricia Norris
  • Character
  • Situation
  • Try

• I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Good
  • Song
  • Me

• My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Thought

• It was a labor of love and they did really well.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Love
  • Really
  • Labor

• America faces a new race that has awakened.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • America
  • New
  • Race

• I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Think
  • Cry
  • Watch

• Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Think
  • Religion
  • Him

• The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Think
  • Man
  • Laugh

• I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Long
  • Simple

• The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.

  

  Os Guinness
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vision

• Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • She
  • Mother
  • Knowledge

• True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • True
  • Help

• Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Together
  • Help
  • Food

• You don't know who wants you for you, who wants you for the money, who wants you for the fame. You have no idea. And how would you know? There's no way.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Money
  • Know
  • Fame

• I personally would not have plastic surgery. What the hell for? It looks ridiculous.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Looks
  • Hell
  • Surgery

• He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him; he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it at demand.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Wish

• If we are not honest, we are not going to be able to forge unity.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Unity

• There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Time
  • Done
  • Job

• There's that kind of song, "Whoah baby, I love you," which doesn't have a visual element, but a very strong emotional element, and these are the great songs to me - those ones that you put them on and they just make you feel great, or whatever.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Song
  • Emotional
  • Element

• I was the only person at Univision who had complete creative control of my own show, by contract. They didn't like that. I was the executive producer; I owned the studio where we taped. I decided who went on my show and who didn't.

  

  Cristina Saralegui
  • Control

• Childhood lasts all through life.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • Childhood

• Fate, I respect a lot. I never regret anything.

  

  Anita Pallenberg
  • Respect
  • Fate
  • Regret

• If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.

  

  Brigitte Bardot