Louise Bourgeois Quotes
The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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If you're sick, first you have to associate your sickness with a food. Then you have to report it to your doctor. Then the doctor reports it to some state authority. The state authority reports it to the federal authority. By the time all that happens, two weeks have gone by.
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Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.
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Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.
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There are some real critical decisions we're going to make in that group. So we played them a lot. And hopefully the film will tell us what we need to know so we make good decisions.
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The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.
