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."

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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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The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.
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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
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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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I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, resilient and glamorous.
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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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I'm very close to thinking the United States shouldn't be in Basel any more. I would not have agreed to rules that are blatantly anti-American. Our regulators should go there and say, 'If it's not in the interests of the United States, we're not doing it.'
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I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.
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Ask spiritual questions with intense integrity, and inspiring answers will surely arrive.
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I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves.
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In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.
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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."