Barbara Chase-Riboud Quotes
A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!
Quotes to Explore
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'The Caretaker' is funny up to a point. Beyond that, it ceases to be funny, and it was because of that point that I wrote it.
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I put out one album one week, and I'm already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.
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My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.
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If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.
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Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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I would be a pastor. It is something I think about doing when my playing days are over.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
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I'm so disappointed in the frat parties at Columbia. I'm like an English boy going to an American college. I'm thinking cheerleaders, I'm thinking kegs. That's not what's on the cards.
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A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!
