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I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#desperate #had #i #longest #often

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#live #thou

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#family #france #like #lunch #more

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#being #daughter #english #father #felt

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#difficult #down #feel #more #next

When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#someone #suffer #them #want #you

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#better #better thing #far #firm #nonsense

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#characteristic #common #confront #else #essence

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agreeable #allow #beach #does #eliminating

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#character #conspicuously #poor #privation #turn