Charlotte Gainsbourg Quotes

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

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• They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Song

• In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Garden
  • Germany
  • Bag

• I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Years
  • Speak
  • Speech

• I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.

  

  Young Thug
  • Friends
  • Care
  • Enough

• It's always an honor to represent your country.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Country
  • Always
  • Honor

• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • History
  • Write
  • Main Thing

• I am a just man.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Man

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • American
  • Better
  • Healing

• It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Men
  • Wish
  • Better

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing.

  

  Kate Bush
  • World
  • Song
  • End

• That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't... it wouldn't.

  

  Ian Watson
  • You
  • Care
  • Cost

• The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Me
  • Myself

• If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Game
  • Name
  • Laugh

• If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • You
  • Games
  • Leave

• Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • America
  • High
  • Health

• We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Her

• The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

  

  Phil Ochs
  • Believe
  • Lies

• Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Different
  • Imaginary
  • Middle-earth

• We will immediately repeal and replace ObamaCare - and nobody can do that like me. We will save $'s and have much better healthcare!

  

  Donald Trump
  • Health care

• All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.

  

  Caravaggio
  • Life
  • Work
  • Nature

• There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and, at the same time, all-powerful Being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

  

  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • Powerful