Cherelle Patrice Quotes

I am not a fan of westerns particularly. ~ Patrice Leconte

My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience. ~ Patrice Leconte

They waited for the bill. On the borders there were new guerrilla armies. The rouble and the dollar had replaced the pound sterling. The kilometre and the kilogram and the litre were new ways of measuring miles and imperial pounds and fluid ounces. In Zaire, Patrice Lumumba had been murdered on the instruction of the White House. They wanted to expel her son for possessing two bottles of brandy. The measurements made by Curzon College were as outdated as yards and inches. They didn't know what counted. ~ Imraan Coovadia

from Canada, between 1840 and 1930 over 900,000 Quebecois traveled to the United States, and primarily to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. ~ Patrice DeMers Kaneda

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting. ~ Patrice Leconte

Women expect us to like them, but they don't even like each other ~ Patrice O'Neal

More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it in spite of its denials and ex-communications. We are far from having overcome bourgeois thought or practices, despite the socialist "intermission" between the Russian revolution and the collapse of the Berlin wall. The avant-garde has lost its radical nature. On the other hand, "bourgeois theatre" is sometimes subtle enough to flirt with the avant-garde or to make "intelligent boulevard theatre. ~ Patrice Pavis

Kaitlyn froze and then said in a low tone, "That'd better be your gun."
"Why yes, I always pack my gun where it'll blow my balls off."[Landon] ~ Patrice Michelle

Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity - the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom - and reconnects with that world of Spirit. ~ Malidoma Patrice Some

... for there are times when disobedience heals a very ailing part of the self. It relieves the human spirit's distress at being forced into narrow boundaries. For the nearly powerless, defying authority is often the only power available. ~ Malidoma Patrice Some

...the sweat of one person has significance only when it serves everybody. ~ Malidoma Patrice Some

Among the Dagara, darkness is sacred. It is forbidden to illuminate it, for light scares the Spirit away ... . The one exception to this rule is the bonfire. ~ Malidoma Patrice Some

The shop was sparkling with ~ Patrice Greenwood

You have to have a globally competitive mining dispensation. ~ Patrice Motsepe

Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams. ~ Patrice Motsepe

I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own. ~ Patrice Leconte

Women don't want to win, they want a winner. ~ Patrice O'Neal

One can say, 'Teach me what you know,'
but the better request is,
'Teach me about what teaches you.' ~ Malidoma Patrice Some

All of us struggle to realize something Patrice spent years telling me, as I took on one position or another: "It's not about you, dear." She often needed to remind me that, whatever people were feeling-happy, sad, frightened, or confused-it was unlikely it had anything to do with me. They had received a gift, or lost a friend, or gotten a medical test result, or couldn't understand why their love wasn't calling them back. It was all about their lives, their troubles, their hopes and dreams. Not mine. The nature of human existence makes it hard for us-or at least for me-to come to that understanding naturally. After all, I can only experience the world through me. That tempts all of us to believe everything we think, everything we hear, everything we see, is all about us. I think we all do this.

But a leader constantly has to train him- or herself to think otherwise. This is an important insight for a leader, in two respects. First, it allows you to relax a bit, secure in the knowledge that you aren't that important. Second, knowing people aren't focused on you should drive you to try to imagine what they are focused on. I see this as the heart of emotional intelligence, the ability to imagine the feelings and perspective of another "me". Some seem to be born with a larger initial deposit of emotional intelligence, but all of us can develop it with practice. ~ James Comey

People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid. ~ Patrice Motsepe

Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarrelling in the greatest possible comfort and convenience. ~ Patrice Kindl

I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders. ~ Patrice Motsepe

The problem is not what we are doing badly, it is because we are not doing things well. ~ Patrice Evra

I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat. ~ Patrice O'Neal

It is the right of the grandfather to tell the grandson later what was said while in the womb. It is the right of the grandfather to give the name that will serve as a life program to its bearer. Grandfather ~ Malidoma Patrice Some

All our businesses comprise of the BEST people money can buy. My policy is hire the best and pay them well ~ Patrice Motsepe

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species! ~ Patrice Leconte

I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized. ~ Patrice Leconte

What I'm trying to do is be righteous. And when I say "righteous," I don't mean God. You know? God- Righteous. I mean just when I wake up, I know I was honest to myself. ~ Patrice O'Neal

Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon ... dipped in honey. ~ Patrice O'Neal

Nakedness is very common in the tribe. It is not a shameful thing; it is an expression of one's relationship with the spirit of nature. To be naked is to be open-hearted. Normally kids stay naked until puberty and even beyond. It was only with the introduction of cheap cloth from the West, through Goodwill and other Christian organisations, that nakedness began to be associated with shame. ~ Malidoma Patrice Some

I wanna say 'China', but I don't really mean 'China.' I just mean the places that Chinese people come from. ~ Patrice O'Neal

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera. ~ Patrice Leconte

History will have its say one day.
Not the history they teach in Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United Nations but the history taught in the country set free from colonialism and its puppet rulers.
Africa will write her own history and it will be a history of glory and dignity. ~ Patrice Lumumba

We are the children of Nelson Mandela; we are the children of Kwame Nkrumah; we are the children of Haile Selassie; we are the children of Samora Machel; we are the children of Robert Mugabe; we are the children of Patrice Lumumba; we are the children of Julius Kambarage Nyerere. We know who we are. ~ Enock Maregesi

A nursing attendant covered one body as her colleague covered the other. Patrice glimpsed Cali's face just before the sheet veiled it. "Nooo ~ AlTonya Washington

Patrice had long since buried the particulars of events so painful that they caused her to resolve only to see good. With such a stance, such as dissociative split, she could walk with evil and believe it did not exist. She was Joe's perfect mate. ~ Judith Spencer

As often is the case after a powerful, destructive storm, it was an achingly beautiful day. Even so late in the summer, I could still hear the occasional skylark singing, and the fields were speckled with red poppies. ~ Patrice Kindl

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin. ~ Patrice Leconte

If you're looking at people like Patrice Lumumba, you are looking at people who had a very definite plan, and events overran them. ~ Chiwetel Ejiofor

Love stories that are too simple don't deserve to have films made about them. ~ Patrice Leconte

Just because she was not meant for a great life, it did not mean she was meant for a small life. ~ Patrice Sarath

He was reading. I was struck dumb with amazement. ~ Patrice Kindl

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people. ~ Patrice Leconte

A bolt from the blue. I have sometimes read of an unexpected event described in this way, and now I know exactly what is meant by the phrase.
A blue sky, a sunny, mild day. The usual list of worries and troubles runs through one's mind, but nothing that cannot be overcome, nothing that will not reach a satisfactory conclusion eventually, if not today, why then, tomorrow. An ordinary day, in fact. And then lightning strikes from out of that innocent blue sky and all that remains is the smoking ruins of one's every hope and every dream. ~ Patrice Kindl