Jeanne Damas Quotes
I have always been surrounded by women with strong personality and feminine: my mother, my sister, my aunts, my friends. I am fascinated by the look they can have - simple details such as a step, a way of speaking, a gesture, a way of wearing a garment.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.
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Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.
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It began to be borne in upon Lord Ickenham that in planning to appeal to the Duke’s better feelings he had omitted to take into his calculations the fact that he might not have any.
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She’s all for not letting the sun go down without having started something calculated to stagger humanity.
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When I retired from professional chess in 2005 to join the Russian pro-democracy movement against Putin, I was frequently asked how my chess experience might help me in politics. My answer was that it wouldn’t help much at all, because in chess we had fixed rules and uncertain results, while in Russian politics it was exactly the opposite.
Garry Kasparov
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I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned - I'm Irish.
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I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks.
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I have always been surrounded by women with strong personality and feminine: my mother, my sister, my aunts, my friends. I am fascinated by the look they can have - simple details such as a step, a way of speaking, a gesture, a way of wearing a garment.
