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When actually, you have one identity made of different parts. Depending on where you are, at what time in your life, some things are higher or deeper. That's what I understood later: that I'm French and Tunisian, and I'm accepting the French part of my identity.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.
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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
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Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.
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I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
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And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
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In the Holy Book of Islam, Allah says:
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We're being held to ransom by these pinstripe Scargills...
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I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?
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There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.
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What America has in Hillary Clinton is a potential president with the charisma but not the competence of Angela Merkel, and the ethics of Dilma Rousseff.
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I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.
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A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.
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Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge.
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When actually, you have one identity made of different parts. Depending on where you are, at what time in your life, some things are higher or deeper. That's what I understood later: that I'm French and Tunisian, and I'm accepting the French part of my identity.
