Lou Doillon Quotes
My mission is to get on the stage and say, 'Listen, I'm a woman, I'm free, I'm a mother, I'm a lover, I'm a friend; I'm shattered by men most of the time, but I'll keep falling in love with them because it's the most thrilling thing in the world; that's what makes me human.'
Quotes to Explore
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
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I don't have many friends.
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Man must first live before he can live abundantly.
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All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
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I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.
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If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.
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My mission is to get on the stage and say, 'Listen, I'm a woman, I'm free, I'm a mother, I'm a lover, I'm a friend; I'm shattered by men most of the time, but I'll keep falling in love with them because it's the most thrilling thing in the world; that's what makes me human.'
