Jean-Pierre Dardenne Quotes

It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

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• The fight against international terrorism isn't just a fight against a bunch of misguided extremists; it is a fight to defend the values that we hold dear.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Fight
  • Values
  • Terrorism

• Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • You
  • Know
  • Never

• I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Comic
  • Notice

• Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Long
  • End

• I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Characters

• I was asked if I would play President Obama in 'My Name is Khan.' I didn't feel comfortable with doing it. Partly because he was still in office, but mainly because I felt that there were other people who were better suited to doing the role.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Play
  • Name

• Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Exercise
  • Innovation
  • Most

• The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Education
  • Health
  • Service

• The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Live
  • Education
  • Learning

• Letters have been found with my name on assassination lists.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • Name
  • Found
  • Letters

• Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.

  

  Origen
  • Truth
  • True
  • Faith

• Every single aspect of myself, let me put it this way, it's all about trying to incorporate. It's about trying to weave the web and keep everyone happy. And of course, it's about giving value to those people so they continue to sponsor me.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Trying
  • Happy

• We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • People
  • Know
  • Better

• I wanna be drunk when I wake upOn the right side of the wrong bed.And every excuse I made upTell you the truth I hate.What didn't kill me,It never made me stronger at all.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Truth
  • Hate
  • Drunk

• The sad Don Quixote of a worthless purpose.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Purpose
  • Sad

• Start with a shovel, wind up with a spoon

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Up
  • Wind

• Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Existence
  • Eternal
  • Illusory

• Have you ever been sued by a midget? It's not fun.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Fun

• For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they still make money. But for the vast majority of traditional universities, if the prices fall by 10%, they are bankrupt; they have no wriggle room.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Money
  • Fall
  • Phoenix

• The difficulty is, Pell Grants are an attempt to do the right thing, and that is to give the low-income student an opportunity to access higher education, and that's a good thing. And welfare was an attempt to help those most in need. The difficulty is, often times a program is so successful that it grows and grows and grows and grows.

  

  Denny Rehberg
  • Good
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Lost
  • Sod

• There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Now

• Given the knee-jerk patriotism of recent war movies, it's discouraging to see 'Windtalkers' evade pertinent facts that could have recast the doubled-edged issues of racism and loyalty and made them relevant to contemporary times.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • War
  • Racism
  • Loyalty

• It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.

  

  Jean-Pierre Dardenne