Jean-Luc Godard Quotes
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	The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.   
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	All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.   
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	The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.   
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	I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.   
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	I need my fill of Indian home cooking.   
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	There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.   
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	If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.   
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	High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.   
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	Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.   
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	When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?   
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	I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.   
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	I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.   
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	At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club - when you're that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that's a difficult position to be in.   
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	Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.   
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	Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.   
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	'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.   
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	Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.   
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	I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.   
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	While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.   
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	I would rather spend one day on Maui than 30 days in the hospital.   
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	I'm just a really normal, sensitive kind of go-about-my business everyday kinda guy. People see the tattoos, and they either read things or they see things and they don't really know that I'm just this guy that gets up and makes coffee in the morning and hangs out with his friends and walks his dog and reads his Bible and goes about his day.   
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	Life is all about sharing. If we are good at something, pass it on. That is the pleasure I get from teaching - whether it is television or books. We should all share.   
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	The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.   
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	Every edit is a lie.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					