Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence.

Jean-Luc Godard

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• The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.

  

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• I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.

  

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• As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

  

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• The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain.

  

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• Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) - you will have hope and be made hopeful.

  

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• There’s always another problem behind the one you just solved. Does that mean that you should stop solving problems?

  

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• Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song, and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

  

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• Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.

  

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• When I arrived, a hundred women were there auditioning... I raised my voice three registers, curled up in a chair, licked my hand and did ‘meow’s ,the director said, 'I didn’t tell her to do any of that stuff' – but the next day I got the part. Caesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, I was so lucky to work with all of them.

  

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• Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.

  

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• When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.

  

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• I'm like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, 'It's too loud!' But I think music gives so much inspiration.

  

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• To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.

  

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• All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

  

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• There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.

  

  Jacob Lew
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• If there's a stereotype that you're not supposed to be good at something, that still gets so badly in your way of concentrating.

  

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• The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.

  

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• We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

  

  Nelson Goodman
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• I can't write from the subconscious actually, because a lot of the time when I co-write with other people, I'm writing for them as opposed to for myself. When it comes to lyrics, I tend to want to give them their voice, since it's most likely going to be on their record, or somebody else's record. And I find for more commerial-style music, people want simplicity, less vagueness, and less space to fill between the lines, so to speak. So I can't be quite as ethereal and mystical.

  

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• The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.

  

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• Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence.

  

  Jean-Luc Godard
  • Simplicity