Simone Schwarz-Bart (Simone Brumant) Quotes
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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I wasn't, like, this top model; I was quietly doing my work, and when I became an actress, people started doing research, and everybody found out. People dug out photos, and suddenly people became interested - but no one was interested in my photos when I was a model.
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My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
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I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.
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When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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We must get government out of the way and help foster an environment where small businesses are free to grow and create jobs.
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The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.
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The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.
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Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
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For me, I'm very visually inspired. I'm more inspired by photographs and movies than I am by listening to other music, so for me to create an amazingly intense visual live show is a dream, so I would love to be on that level for sure.
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What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor.
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Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
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Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them.
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And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
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I could be standing in the supermarket, and there is a person standing down the aisle, who is reading the back of a cornflakes box but everything about them is going "It's me! I'm the one you want! I am the necessary subject. This is it!"
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Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.
