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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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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After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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Thoughts in a poem. The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science, science journalism, and science fiction were born.
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Our nation's multiculturalism is what makes us so special as a nation.
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A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!
