Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
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With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.
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We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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A lot of people don't know how to talk on the phone anymore.
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Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.
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People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.
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For our senior picture, they said, 'Black or navy blazer.' And I thought, Why do I want to look like everybody else?
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I missed the Olympic team in 1996 - missed making the team. I tried to make a comeback in my sport, and soon after the Olympic trials, Johann Olav Koss, who is a Norwegian speed-skater, called me up and asked me to be a part of Olympic Aid. Now Olympic Aid is Right to Play. It's a wonderful, narrow focus.
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It takes a checkbook to change the world
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I don't necessarily like anniversaries that much.
