Habib Bourguiba Quotes
"How many times, have I had to seat women whom I received at audiences next to me, rather than facing me, in order to avoid general embarrassment? Nothing should compel us to suffer such trials. It puts the nerves of men and the modesty of women to a severe test."
Quotes to Explore
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I swear on everything holy I do not know what's on the Internet about me.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.
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He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
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People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain of the cold!
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This is my advice to entrepreneurs. It's easy to give up, but believe in your ideas. Surround yourself with people you respect and are smarter than you.
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If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.
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As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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I would have done higher than that... I would have set it higher.
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Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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Steve Zahn and I like to go to dinner, and we love to go to Chef Donald Link's Herb Saint.
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Maybe it was escapism, but I had become obsessed with going to remote locations and keeping myself behind the camera.
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I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.
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We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.
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My 'Vogue' is about being inclusive; it's about diversity. Showing different women, different body shapes, different races, class. To be tackling gender.
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"How many times, have I had to seat women whom I received at audiences next to me, rather than facing me, in order to avoid general embarrassment? Nothing should compel us to suffer such trials. It puts the nerves of men and the modesty of women to a severe test."
