Jacques Villeneuve Quotes
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'
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When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.
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It's great to work in film and TV, and I love it, but there's nothing that can replace that instantaneous storytelling you get in theater.
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You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.
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Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.
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My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband, died when I was four years old. So I only had my mum and sister, really.
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I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.
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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
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Cinnamon is a super-food that lowers cholesterol and is anti-cancerous.
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I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.
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I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move.
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When, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan famously said government is the problem, not the solution, he established the Republican mantra that has not changed in all the years since. It was a clever bit of rhetoric, but it has turned too many Republicans into economic simpletons.
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We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes.
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People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that.
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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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All women are born dancers in the sense that natural movement becomes their body and grows out of their instinctive feeling for womanhood, motherhood and tenderness.
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If I knew I couldn't win races, I would have stayed in the States.
