Jean-Marc Vallee Quotes
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I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities. One of the most visible examples of this is our decision to close on Sunday.
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One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.
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Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.
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Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
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I like challenges. I think that's important.
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A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.
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'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.
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In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.
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Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.
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Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.
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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
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Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
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What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know. 'The genius of Warren Buffett in 23 quotes' MarketWatch (19 August 2015)
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I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. And sometimes I worry about drying out, and dying.
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You might not agree with something, but it doesn't mean you don't need to listen to it. White people have to accept that they don't always know about racism.
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Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!
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Rather than focus on the negative aspects of change, which is loss, I focus on the adventure of it and say "What's next?"
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In acting, you draw so much on your private life.
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I'm Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Adrenaline makes me change.
