Christine and the Queens (Héloïse Adelaïde Letissier) Quotes
Sometimes, in my adult life, I have memories of when I was young and really scared of being too close to people.
Quotes to Explore
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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The best advice I get is actually from my family and friends. That has been a huge resource I've come to rely on.
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It's not the moment yet for me to enjoy my time as an actor, and as the time goes by, I feel that I need to push myself harder to pay back for all the good fortune that I have received.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.
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A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.
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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
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I grew up admiring Ronald Reagan and Vice President Bush, and if I were old enough, I would have voted for 41. I was glad he won.
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Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
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Everything starts from a dot.
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People say I look like a vampire. I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not.
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People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Suppose you knew the winning numbers for the lottery? All of them? Not guessed them, not dreamed them, but really knew them? What would you do? You would run to the store. You would mark those numbers on the play card. And you would win...Same for killing people.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.
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Whenever education budgets get tightened, art programs are the first to get cut. Like the enduring popularity of reality TV, this never ceases to amaze me.
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Sometimes, in my adult life, I have memories of when I was young and really scared of being too close to people.
