Desire Quote by Vanessa Paradis

“I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.”

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There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

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Once you're a mom, whether you're kids are next to you or far away from you, you're always a mom.

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I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.

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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I…

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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

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Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything. I'm super lucky because I come home and…

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I liked to play dress-up.

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I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.

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When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.

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In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.

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The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.

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My children are grown now, they are more independent.

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Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.

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Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes…

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

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On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…

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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and…

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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not…

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented…

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