Jean-Luc Godard Quotes
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Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.
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Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is what gives you a real evil sound that conjures up dark, fantastic images. It's like an audio horror movie. It personifies what a horror movie is about.
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There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.
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I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.
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If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be.
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All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
