Catherine Breillat Quotes
The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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I love what I do.
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I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.
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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.
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Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they’ll find a means to be happy.
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I doubt that even if this evidence could be upgraded to 100 per cent it would persuade the sort of people who go on self-appointed missions of mediation to Baghdad. These people further fail to see that governments now have a further responsibility to their citizens - namely to see that something is done to prevent future assaults on civilisation.
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I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.
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In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.
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I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.
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I was trained as a fine artist. I went to a progressive public school in Pennsylvania that developed these talents, but I was never able to apply to a decent college because I had no math, no science - I was allowed to just paint all day and write.
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I'm into the whole song-as-a-piece-of-music thing: if it literally doesn't call for it, if it already has enough stuff going on, then it's okay not to play a solo.
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If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.
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If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?
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It's much better to write a book and stick to the research - that's history. In cinema, emotional truth and psychological truth is much more important.
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I am no David Beckham. I have not changed my life since I was 15 years old. My family is the only thing that has changed for me.
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As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'
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The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.
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Our parents have always encouraged us to be independent and dream big.
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The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.
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By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.
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I know North Korea is the most ridiculous country in the world, but for me, my mum, my brother, and my families and old memories are so important.
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The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.
