Jean-Luc Godard Quotes
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
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I like to be real. I don't like things to be staged or fussy.
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I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention.
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I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.
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I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
