Jean-Paul Belmondo Quotes

I insist on doing all my own film stunts, although they are often worked out in advance by a stunt man who then advises me on the best and safest method of performing it.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

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• The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Up
  • American
  • Game

• In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Time
  • School
  • Today

• One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Man
  • Team
  • Ingredient

• I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Think
  • Films
  • Dear

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.

  

  Barry McGee
  • People
  • Art
  • Interesting

• Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Anything
  • States
  • Collective

• Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

  

  Ice T
  • Future
  • Want
  • Cinema

• Nothing, literally nothing, makes me feel like I'm back to my body more than Pilates.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Body

• I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Respect
  • Gifted

• My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Parents
  • Couple
  • Years

• Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • You
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• The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Needs
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  • Member

• It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Society
  • Travel
  • Chance

• I've always wanted to be on an original cast recording. I grew up listening to them, and now to know that my voice is heard on three or four of them is just surreal. I never thought I would be that person.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Up
  • Listening
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• I love my fashion, so I gotta have my outfits.

  

  Zendaya
  • Fashion
  • Gotta
  • Outfits

• A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might write about it as being the first internet election, in which what happened was actually an expression in the real world of a virtual reality. And you've been writing about that subject for a while.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • World
  • Writing
  • Real

• You gotta say what you say, Don't let anybody get in your way...

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Way
  • Say

• A free citizen in a free state, it seems to me, has an inalienable right to play with whomsoever he will, so long as he does not disturb the general peace. If any other citizen, offended by the spectacle, makes a pother, then that other citizen, and not the man exercising his inalienable right, should be put down by the police.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Long
  • Free
  • Peace

• Where do we invest our trust now? In politicians? Most people would say not. In banks, in religion, in a sense of nationhood? In each other? Even that has been complicated. It feels like there's a total collapse of trust, but without trust, it's impossible to have any sense of who one is.

  

  Mike Bartlett
  • People
  • Religion
  • Been

• All the measurements in the world do not balance one theorem by which the science of eternal truths is actually advanced.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • World
  • Science
  • Balance

• I insist on doing all my own film stunts, although they are often worked out in advance by a stunt man who then advises me on the best and safest method of performing it.

  

  Jean-Paul Belmondo