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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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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So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.
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My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.
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At the Argentina game, how would you have guessed that Darren Anderton would have gone off with cramp?
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I guess I'm a workaholic!
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In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle.
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If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.
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I'm Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Adrenaline makes me change.
