Martin Villeneuve Quotes
I made a film that was impossible to make, but I didn't know it was impossible, and that's how I was able to do it.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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I love Twitter.
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Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of fair and equitable rules to enhance the development prospects of developing countries.
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Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
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The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.
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The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
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I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
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We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.
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Canadians are very proud of me, of my career.
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Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life... It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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A free trade agreement can be a win-win for E.U. and India.
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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
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In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.
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And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
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The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.
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Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.
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I made a film that was impossible to make, but I didn't know it was impossible, and that's how I was able to do it.
