Emmanuelle Seigner Quotes
I've wanted to be Mick Jagger since I was 18. One of the things I love about music is that you don't have to be dependent on other people like you are in the film business. I hate being dependent on anyone. With my music, I can do whatever I want. I also think it's made me more relaxed as an actress.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they're not used to? Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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How much do we owe the people we love? Now I would add a follow-up question: How do we cope with the fact that we can't necessarily give the people we love what they need?
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White Americans have the option of not having to think about race on a daily basis. People of color don't. Race is a major deciding factor in their lives and the histories of their families.
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The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn't receive the same treatment as art in the sense of the value of what it is, especially nowadays when it's been devalued and diminished to almost the point that it has to be given away for free.
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I've wanted to be Mick Jagger since I was 18. One of the things I love about music is that you don't have to be dependent on other people like you are in the film business. I hate being dependent on anyone. With my music, I can do whatever I want. I also think it's made me more relaxed as an actress.
