Catherine Breillat Quotes

If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.

Catherine Breillat

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• I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Country
  • Species

• For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Humans

• We are a naturally hierarchical species.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Species
  • Naturally

• It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Die
  • Humans
  • Changes

• The purpose of computers is human freedom.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Freedom
  • Purpose
  • Humans

• For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Magic
  • Humans
  • Flying

• This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Humans
  • Behavior
  • Scripts

• And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Question
  • Humans
  • Might

• There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.

  

  Da'Vine Joy Randolph
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Humans

• the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Humans
  • Human Beings
  • Snob

• If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Nature
  • Humans
  • Buddhist

• The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

  

  Konrad Zuse
  • Great
  • Humans
  • Danger

• There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • World
  • Great
  • Today

• Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Body

• To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Giving

• The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Death
  • Dance
  • Animal

• I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.

  

  Emperor Hirohito
  • Tears
  • Japanese
  • Species

• Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.

  

  William James
  • Humans
  • Term
  • Invention

• The brain has not explained the mind fully.

  

  Wilder Penfield
  • Brain
  • Explained
  • Fully

• Myself--a prince by fortune of my birth, Near to the king in blood, and near in love Till you did make him misinterpret me-- Have stooped my neck under your injuries And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds, Eating the bitter bread of banishment, Whilst you have fed upon my signories, Disparked my parks and felled my forest woods, From my own windows torn my household coat, Rased out my imprese, leaving me no sign, Save men's opinions and my living blood, To show the world I am a gentleman.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Opinion
  • Leaving

• If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.

  

  Catherine Breillat
  • Humans
  • Species
  • Virginity