Chris Marker Quotes
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
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From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.
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Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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As long as we remain committed to holding high our individuals of supreme finish, others will be inspired to loose themselves of the gravity of the waywards and downtroddens.
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If you believe that when the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, then you believe that creating wealth causes poverty, and you're an idiot.
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I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.
