Brigitte Bardot Quotes
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
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Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
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The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.
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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
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Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather.
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I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction-processing platforms, recordkeeping administration, and brokerage trading services.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
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I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
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We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.
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They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called 'work' in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking 'outside the box'; and when they die they are put in a box.
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We have failed to live up to the expectations of the public.
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The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
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Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
