Brigitte Nielsen Quotes

My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.

Brigitte Nielsen

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• I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Think
  • Actually
  • Radical

• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• I brought several national projects to Katihar.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Projects
  • Brought
  • Several

• There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Strong
  • Interesting

• I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • House
  • Man
  • Stop

• I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Game
  • Small
  • Me

• I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Going
  • Happen
  • Winner

• When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Truth
  • Team
  • Best

• One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Needs
  • Barbecue
  • DJ

• Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Pretty
  • Culture
  • You

• It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Long
  • War
  • Mistake

• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Better
  • Red
  • Argument

• Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Time
  • Community
  • Period

• It's not very often that I like new bands.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Like
  • New
  • Often

• I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Love
  • Fun

• I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Money
  • Man
  • Me

• It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Goal
  • Famous
  • Actor

• People don't want to see me having a bad morning. They have job problems, financial problems, family pressures, kids to get off to school. The last thing they want to wake up to is someone showing them the same problems. So maybe that's the one time I am forced to act.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

  

  Carrie-Anne Moss
  • World
  • Mind
  • School

• Whenever I see your smiling faceI have to smile myself.Because I love you (Yes, I do).And when you give me that pretty little pout,It turns me inside out.There's something about you, baby (I don't know).

  

  James Taylor
  • Pretty
  • Baby
  • Smile

• What did everyone think robot vacuuming was going to be? Well, they think Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons,' a human robot that pushed a vacuum. That was never going to happen.

  

  Colin Angle

• My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.

  

  Brigitte Nielsen
  • School
  • Childhood