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
-
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.
-
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.
-
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
-
My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
-
I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
-
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.
-
When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
-
The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
-
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
-
There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
-
It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.
-
Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
-
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
-
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.
-
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.
-
My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.
-
If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.
-
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.
-
I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
-
It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.
-
You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
-
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
-
Buddhism doesn't tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.
-
A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!
