Louise Bourgeois Quotes

I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.

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• My family background was deeply Christian.

  

  Abbe Pierre
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  • Christian

• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
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• In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Work
  • Danger
  • France

• I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Art
  • Artists
  • Voices

• My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Mom
  • Trust
  • Care

• I think as any mother would be she was absolutely over the moon. And actually we had quite an awkward situation because I knew and I knew that William had asked my father but I didn't know if my mother knew.

  

  Kate Middleton
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  • Mother
  • Father

• I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
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  • Family
  • Support

• Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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  • Important
  • Family

• I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Time
  • Family
  • Dad

• For the naysayers that claimed 'American Family' revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncaring morons of the materialistic '70s, this image will be proven wrong when Mom and Dad remarry... Make no mistake. This is not to emphasize the sadness of my demise but rather emphasize the love of my family and friends.

  

  Lance Loud
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  • Love
  • Friends

• I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.

  

  Nathan Fillion
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• I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.

  

  Edith Widder
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  • Time
  • Amazing

• Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Important
  • Family
  • American

• I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Family
  • Together
  • Science

• People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

  

  Gail Porter
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• I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.

  

  Victoria Gotti
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• And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Family
  • Thought

• Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

  

  Zaha Hadid
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  • True
  • Help

• I'm afraid of the dark because I picture things; I see things. I'm a freak. I see, like, little demons coming out of the floor and other little things running around. It's scary.

  

  Jacob Whitesides
  • Running
  • Dark
  • Picture

• So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I didn't know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked.

  

  Lea Thompson
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  • Trying
  • Money

• Because I was the first super-elite, the press caught on and started calling me a supermodel. So in that sense, I guess I'm the first. But, in my opinion, there were girls that could have been called supermodels before that, if the term was in existence.

  

  Carol Alt
  • Opinion

• In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money. I had done network sitcoms. I had a nest egg.

  

  Lizzy Caplan
  • People
  • Money
  • Done

• I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.

  

  Louise Bourgeois
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