Jean-Pierre Dardenne Quotes

In Europe, there are many filmmakers working in the same territory: immigration, and the things that are most disruptive to European life today. That's not a judgment. I think it's good that cinema looks at such things.

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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Best

• I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Cooking

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Perfection

• Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Friendship

• One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Want
  • Getting Older

• I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Fashion
  • Wilderness
  • Connect

• Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Food
  • Water
  • Air

• We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Children
  • Money

• Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • God
  • Sports
  • Face

• Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Women
  • Free
  • Rest

• Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Work
  • Home
  • Forever

• I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Movie
  • House
  • Day

• We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look to be ruled.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Long
  • Power

• The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • American
  • Law
  • Government

• To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Crime
  • Open
  • Citizen

• The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line.

  

  Brian Boitano
  • Athlete
  • Obstacles
  • Overcoming

• Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

  

  Christopher Marlowe

• For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Mom

• What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Power
  • Player
  • Sports

• I will only talk about my work. I have always stayed away from commenting on my personal life, and that remains unchanged.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • Life
  • Work

• In Europe, there are many filmmakers working in the same territory: immigration, and the things that are most disruptive to European life today. That's not a judgment. I think it's good that cinema looks at such things.

  

  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
  • Life
  • Good
  • Today