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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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.
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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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The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.
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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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I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
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In fact, the American Mastodon vanished around thirteen thousand years ago. Its demise was part of a wave of disappearances that has come to be known as the megafauna extinction. This wave coincided with the spread of modern humans and, increasingly, is understood to have been a result of it. In this sense, the crisis Cuvier discerned just beyond the edge of recorded history was us.
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I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.
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My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.
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If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.
