Jehane Noujaim Quotes
In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.Jehane Noujaim
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
A. N. Wilson -
I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
Zubin Mehta -
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
Damien Rice -
At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
Carl Spitteler -
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
Aaron Sorkin -
Actors don't have real value.
Uwe Boll
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
Sam Graves -
Time was God's first creation.
Walter Lang -
I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.
Garrett Hedlund -
You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
Vernon Wells -
The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
Zac Brown Band -
In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
Larry Hogan
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
Safra A. Catz -
My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
Gabrielle Union -
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz -
Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
Earl Wilson -
I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.
Samantha Bee -
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
Rafael Correa
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Music is inarticulate poesy.
John Dryden -
AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
Edmund White -
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
Princess Diana -
Beyond just the respect that you want to have, people just miss out on being in the moment when they have a screen in front of their face. I just don't know to tell people. I feel it's like, you know, 'Turn off your phone and go to the theater.'
Phillipa Soo -
The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people.
Nachman of Breslov -
In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.
Jehane Noujaim