Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes
I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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I am not honest.
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.
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I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
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Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.
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We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.
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The mentality of how we treat one another needs to be examined - especially how we treat our men of color.
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If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!
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We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government--a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance.
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Anything negative that happens to you in life can be turned into a positive as far as acting is concerned. You can draw on your experiences - it's far better than any research.
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A lot of people gave up on us, but we kept kicking and making music.
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I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.
