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

• Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

  

  Caroline Kennedy
  • Up
  • Work
  • Women

• I'm not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a strong and a rich woman who had been very successful.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • Strong
  • Guilty

• When the Americans see someone like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, who made billions thanks to their talent and determination, the first thing they say to themselves is, 'I want to be like him.' This, in many ways, is the engine that drives Western society: The desire to make it like the winners.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Want
  • Society
  • Desire

• Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Up
  • Space
  • Presence

• Since 1989, public alarm at the prospect of atomic Armageddon has quietened, but the number of nuclear-armed states has increased, arsenals are being modernized, and powerful states remain convinced that a nuclear security umbrella is vital to national defense, domestic prestige, and geopolitical clout.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • Powerful

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

  

  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • Powerful