Jean-Luc Godard Quotes
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I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.
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I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
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As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.
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In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.
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Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.
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I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious.
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I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.
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Letting men die is a money-saving device. Safety costs money… as one safety official put it, ‘When everything is hurry, hurry, hurry, when you start pressuring people and taking shortcuts, things can go wrong. And then people die.’ No. And then men die.
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Quintili Vare, legiones redde!
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Impressionism was the beginning of a cult devoted to the material on the canvas – the actual pigment..
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I pay these niggers with a reality check
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I think there's inherently an issue that models will literally never be able to handle, which is that when somebody comes along with a new way of doing something that's really excellent, the models will not recognize it. They only know how to recognize excellence when they can measure it somehow.
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Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.
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My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.
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There hasn't been one highlight that stands out... but touring and performing has been great.
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The people of the world can live together in peace. We know that is God's vision. Now, that must be our work here on Earth.
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At the cinema, we do not think - we are thought.
