Jean-Luc Godard Quotes
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
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I've never been a partier.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
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I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
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Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.
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I couldn't have imagined working on a film I didn't believe in.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
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I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
