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.

Jeanne Damas

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• Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • Work
  • Profit

• All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.

  

  Taio Cruz
  • Good
  • Music
  • I Can

• 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.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Matter
  • Accept
  • Someone

• Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Society
  • Face
  • Celebrate

• 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.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hand

• If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Up
  • Body
  • Strength

• The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Blessing
  • Modern
  • Greatest

• 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.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Life
  • World
  • Spiritual

• 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.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • World
  • Universe

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Why

• 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.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Planning

• She’s all for not letting the sun go down without having started something calculated to stagger humanity.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She
  • Humanity
  • Sun

• 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
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Democracy

• I have so many messy moments.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • Moments

• Every book should have a romance.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Book

• The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Trying
  • Friend
  • Hand

• There's all kind of things going on in the world that I don't like but I can't change. But at least I can say, 'Change the way you eat!'

  

  David H. Murdock
  • World

• Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant
  • Reading

• I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Women
  • Power
  • History

• Sports exact too harsh a toll on our beautiful women. Like engendered species, they should be protected, and instead, we exploit them and demand they fly too close to the sun for our amusement. We send them into the arena for an exhausting three-setter, an 18-hole playoff, a 200th lap. The burnout factor is insurmountable.

  

  Kevin Bleyer
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Sports

• 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.

  

  Jeanne Damas
  • Women
  • Feminine
  • Surrounded