Jacques Villeneuve Quotes

Everybody just uses the one-move rule without realising when it is too late to actually move and cross over and when it is actually being dangerous.

Jacques Villeneuve

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• I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Matter
  • Accept
  • Someone

• I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Better
  • Away
  • Pedestal

• Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Lost
  • Successful
  • Trials

• I like to think of myself as classy.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Classy

• Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Comedy
  • Amazing
  • Movies

• I'm not big on remakes.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Big

• Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Discipline
  • Habit
  • Easy

• To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Real
  • Knowledge

• The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Good
  • Future
  • Value

• I live in Soho in lower New York; there's tons and tons of tourists right outside my door step, obviously. Most of them are European, and all of them have guidebooks. I never see anyone looking at a phone.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Live
  • Door
  • Step

• I'm not trying to be something that I'm not, and I think a lot of people can relate to that. They want something that's real, and I think I give that to them.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Real
  • Trying

• In arguing too, the parson owned his skill,For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still;While words of learned length, and thundering soundAmazed the gazing rustics ranged around;And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,That one small head could carry all he knew.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Words
  • Small
  • Wonder

• It's nothing really. It's the unique presentation that makes me look good in the action scenes. Why did I dare do them? That's a funny question! Why do I act? Why do I breathe!

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Good
  • Why
  • Funny

• The best proof that there’s intelligent life in outer space is the fact that it hasn’t come here.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
  • Space
  • Intelligent

• Nothing was more likely to aggravate the difficulties of the present situation than any suggestions that our ultimate objective was to unite France, Italy and ourselves against Germany.

  

  Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • Present

• No hallé como quien ser, en ninguno. Y me quedé, así: como ninguno.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• My dream collaboration would be with someone like Bjork, Kate Bush, or even Dionne Warwick.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Dream
  • Collaboration

• There's a certain rhythm to comedy that is almost like you're dancing and you just go on autopilot, so to speak. There's something just beautifully enjoyable about comedy in that respect. It's a joy to be able to do that. Drama, you get to go to depths that you haven't gone to before.

  

  James Wolk
  • Respect
  • Comedy
  • Joy

• 111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Dog
  • Loves
  • Dirts

• The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Genius
  • Poet
  • Importance

• The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.

  

  David Attenborough
  • World
  • Good
  • Music

• And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.

  

  Anne Heche
  • Mother

• Everybody just uses the one-move rule without realising when it is too late to actually move and cross over and when it is actually being dangerous.

  

  Jacques Villeneuve