Nicole Brossard Quotes
... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.
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I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.
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What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
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If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background, so it's like a ballet where you have to tell a story with just your body. I think that's really interesting to have to tell a story with just your face and your mannerisms, and I'd like to tap into that world.
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I'm just worried that there's enough beer on the bus. That's the top priority at all times.
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Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?
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Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
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Iraq was not involved in 9-11, Iraq was not a terrorist state. But now that we have decimated the country, the borders are open, freedom fighters from other countries are going in, and they the U.S. government have created more terrorism by going to an Islamic country...
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An island-farm - broad seas of corn Stirred by the wandering breath of morn - The happy spot where I was born.
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Ninety-five percent of all brussels sprouts come from California.
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I share personal things about myself in the context of my interviews and in 'It's Messy' - but that's 20 percent of my life.
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I'm just a normal girl who really enjoys her job, and so you have to take the other things that come with being in the public eye.
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Others think their American ways will work in other countries. That's not always accurate and can be disrespectful to the local culture.
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I'm just about the best singer I know, and it's time for everybody to say that. I have total facility with my voice. And for some weird reason, critics don't talk about it.
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'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.
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I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.
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One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.
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Daddy - I remember when he first let me drive the cultivator for him, you know... He eased you into the hard work that you had to do later.
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We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.
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One of the ways you go after the debt, one of the ways you create jobs is by investing in people.
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If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes.
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We tend to assume that we have a baseline of speech that's going to be normal in all contexts, but the truth is, we all change our ways of speaking depending on who we're talking to. And so I think it's kind of a gesture of politeness to the people you're speaking to to try to say something in their own idiom.
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... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.
