Barbara Chase-Riboud Quotes

A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!

Barbara Chase-Riboud

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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.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Safety

• 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.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Faith
  • Young
  • Explain

• Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • True
  • Professional
  • Be True

• My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • inspirational
  • Rather

• The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Dream
  • Day
  • Hero

• I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Bring

• 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.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Money
  • Giving

• When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Good
  • You
  • Peace

• The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Change
  • Wonder
  • Architecture

• Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Men
  • Sympathy
  • Generosity

• There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Now

• It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Love
  • True
  • Paris

• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Fault
  • Globalization

• Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Knowledge
  • Adventure
  • Edge

• When I was younger, I had conversations with friends about wanting to create something different. Every young musician probably thinks that. But it's difficult to do, because there are only so many words, notes, melodies, songs. But as soon as I stopped thinking and started feeling, it worked. I didn't realize it till I was done.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Point

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Day
  • Feel
  • Emotion

• My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Job
  • Story
  • Decisions

• When I have a few weeks off, I catch up with my friends, but after a week or so, I just can't wait to get back in to the boxing club and start training.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Training

• When it comes down to it the city made the law and they need look at it how it's affecting college students in a negative, they're being put out on the street.

  

  John Bacon
  • Law
  • City
  • College

• I think Puerto Rico becoming a state would fulfill the destiny of 3.5 million American citizens that live in Puerto Rico.

  

  Ricardo Rossello
  • American
  • Destiny
  • Citizens

• If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Me
  • Peace
  • Enemy

• A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!

  

  Barbara Chase-Riboud
  • American
  • Generation
  • Translated