Astrid Berges-Frisbey Quotes
For me, Chanel just makes sense - like a story or a film. It's part of my life.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.
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I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.
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I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.
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It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.
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I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.
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I don't really want to do topless stuff anymore.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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One of the best things we can do for our country, for advancing our children, is to upgrade our child care system.
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Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
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For me, Chanel just makes sense - like a story or a film. It's part of my life.
