Chantal Akerman Quotes
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
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If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
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I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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I want to keep active, so when they called me to fight Nate Diaz, I agreed because I wanted to stay active. I got a little surprised because he was out so long, but he's a tough opponent.
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Army life don't agree with me.
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In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.
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A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been an attempt to paint Muslims as enemies of the United States.
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I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.
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When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her passion. As I explain to her that I'm gay, it sounds, even to me, like a silly excuse; I scarcely believe it myself.
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From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
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People would continue to adopt a particular conception of the divine because it worked for them, not because it was scientifically or philosophically sound.
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I think she always nursed a small mad hope.
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You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist. You have to hit it.
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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
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In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios had valves, as though electricity were a fluid to be diverted by plumbing. With the click of the knob came a significant hiss and hum, just at the edge of audibility.
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I was not interested by cinema when I was young.
