Catherine Breillat Quotes
If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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We are a naturally hierarchical species.
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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.
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For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.
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The purpose of computers is human freedom.
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For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
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This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
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Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.
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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.
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Sometimes I like to think that characters you play are all the other people you could've been in a lifetime.
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I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from.
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Yeah exactly, so if anyone's bummed that The Mars Volta record's too simple or too pop, they can buy that album and it'll take them right back to that kind of sound. It's one of my favourite things I've ever worked on. It's pretty much a Mars Volta record, just without Thomas, Ikey, and Marcel. With Volta [Octahedron] was just our acoustic record that turned into our pop record.
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To tell a person who has ADD to try harder is about as helpful as telling someone who is nearsighted to squint harder.
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She's saying that's ok, Hey baby, do what you want I'll be your night lovin' thing I'll be the freak you can taunt And I don't care what you say I want to go too far I'll be your everything If you make me a star...
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If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.
