Brigitte Boisselier Quotes
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
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There is no evidence to show that prohibition has ever had its intended impact. Of course, just as banning beef has reduced beef consumption, banning alcohol will lead to reduced alcohol consumption. But, there appears to be little or no correlation between, say, domestic violence or household impoverishment and prohibition.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
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If you are the person who gets the lion's share of attention in good times, guess what: you get the lion's share of attention in bad times.
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I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents built for me in the back yard. In the fort, I was neither ostracized nor ill at ease - I was self-reliant, brave, ingeniously surviving, if lost.
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Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.
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I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.
