Nicole Brossard Quotes
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
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You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
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Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.
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More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.
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I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.
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On immigration, Europe is in danger of displaying the worst of itself: selfishness, haphazard decision-making and rows between member states.
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There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
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I think, when I'm 73, I'm going to be getting softer, writing Hallmark cards, losing my teeth.
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I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
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The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.
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'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.
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Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.
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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
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Virtual reality is the 'ultimate empathy machine.' These experiences are more than documentaries. They're opportunities to walk a mile in someone else's shoes.
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Loving a woman is always political.
