Barbara Chase-Riboud Quotes
A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!
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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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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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Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.
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There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.
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Stolen sweets are always sweeter,Stolen kisses much completer,Stolen looks are nice in chapels,Stolen, stolen, be your apples.
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I used to be a calligrapher for weddings and events - that was my side job while I was auditioning. I think handwritten notes are a lost art form. When I booked my first pilot, my dad wrote me a letter that I still have. The idea of someone taking the time to put pen to paper is really special.
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I think that playing characters far away from who I am as a person is a lot more fun and a lot more exciting, and you can play with it a lot more because it's not you and it's so far from you, so that's very liberating as far as that goes.
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We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.
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A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!
