Yves Behar Quotes

Everything has yet to be invented. I never say 'green' - I say 'greener.' It's greener simply because this is a continuum of change, improvement and discovery.

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• I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Live
  • Future

• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Single
  • Prayer

• Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Want
  • Me
  • Running

• Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Judge
  • Dreams

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Black
  • Change
  • Feel

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Change
  • Opportunities

• In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • World
  • Dream
  • Sweet

• I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Idea

• I was tested against the best.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Best
  • Against
  • Tested

• I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Field
  • Plantation
  • Cane

• Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Society
  • Taken
  • New

• There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Fun
  • Now
  • Nobody

• I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Long
  • Me

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Thought
  • End

• I am an actor through and through.

  

  Dougray Scott

• We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Time
  • World
  • Fun

• I suspect that most people in the world will travel through or at least wish to travel through Miami in their lifetimes. I think it is on the same level as seeing the pyramids in Giza for many people. But, Miami is slippery: It is a place that is always that distant orgiastic green light while also being a hot, tropical, and very real place.

  

  Jim Drain
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Mind
  • Dark
  • Child

• Everything has yet to be invented. I never say 'green' - I say 'greener.' It's greener simply because this is a continuum of change, improvement and discovery.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Change
  • Green
  • Improvement