Charlotte Gainsbourg Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I am a just man.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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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.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
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If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.
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If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.
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Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.
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We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.
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Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.
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If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.
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We're not citizens anymore. We're consumers. That's what we're called. It's just like being an alcoholic and being in denial that you're an alcoholic. We're in denial that each and every one of us is the problem. And until we face up to that, nothing's going to happen.
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A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.
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Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.
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Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.
