To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants... Life has become impossible.


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The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your whee...
ALAIN PROST
The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions su...
ALAIN ASPECT
It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with every...
ALAIN PROST
It's striking and unique in London how you know to create this alchemy between the concept, the ...
ALAIN DUCASSE
. . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imag...
ALAIN LOCKE
I'm anti-globalisation. There is nothing more enriching than to go out into the world and meet p...
ALAIN DUCASSE
Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how...
ALAIN DUCASSE
You need a good gardener and a good fisherman. The cook is not required.
ALAIN DUCASSE
The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.
ALAIN RESNAIS
It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.
ALAIN ROBERT
Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could ha...
ALAIN PROST
I think the French and the Japanese are both obsessed by seasons, small producers, freshness.
ALAIN DUCASSE
We can make savings in these direct costs while maintaining our sponsorship levels and improving the...
ALAIN DASSAS
With cooking, there's always the tangible and the intangible: that which is in the domain of sen...
ALAIN DUCASSE
There is a panoply of candidates there representing every interest, including gays and lesbians, wom...
ALAIN GAGNON
People like Bouchard and Parizeau have left extraordinarily big footprints,
ALAIN GAGNON
It's a way of showing compassion and sympathy with people in trouble.
ALAIN GAGNON
I'd like to get to the point where words like Yom Kippur, or Ramadan, or Christmas become part of th...
ALAIN ELKANN
Being moderate or tolerant or open is not a sign of weakness but of civilization and strength, ... I...
ALAIN ELKANN
The intention was not to say that all religions are equal but that all people are equal, and that ac...
ALAIN ELKANN
By the end of this year 75 percent of our six-inch production will be in Singapore.
ALAIN DUTHEIL
How could anyone do this? One job in four private sector jobs depends on exports and the country att...
ALAIN DUHAMEL
We have already signed up for 2008, which means we want to continue. But we are realistic as well, b...
ALAIN DASSAS
By June we should know the new economic equation. If we have achieved the savings we want then we wi...
ALAIN DASSAS
This open-source addition to our existing product line also allows us to bring our core technology t...
ALAIN COUDER
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow brings an exotic blend of action and adventure ...
ALAIN CORRE