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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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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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 get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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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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Certain struggles never end.
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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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Most of the best writing, the most creative writing, the most interesting, the most out-of-the-box kind of stuff, is being done on cable, you know, and on the computer. I mean, whatever it is, Amazon or Netflix or something. Because they're just willing to take chances, you know, and there's a market for it.
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My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.
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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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It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.
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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
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Slavery's crime against humanity did not begin when one people defeated and enslaved its enemies (though of course this was bad enough), but when slavery became an institution in which some men were 'born' free and others slave, when it was forgotten that it was man who had deprived his fellow-men of freedom, and when the sanction for the crime was attributed to nature.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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We use power, of course, in the international fields in a way which is the exact contrary to the way in which we use it within the state.
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Loving a woman is always political.
