Pontus Hulten Quotes

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

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• This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.

  

  Ram Charan
  • People
  • Free
  • Service

• The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Honest
  • Deserve
  • Colorado

• Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

  

  Wendell Mayes
  • World
  • Man
  • Smart

• I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Great
  • War
  • Organization

• If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• I like to laugh and make people have fun.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Fun
  • Laugh

• I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Parents
  • I Love
  • Llife Mine

• I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Happy
  • Comedy
  • Cheerful

• I believe in music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Today
  • Know
  • Government

• Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Best
  • Morning

• For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • People
  • Politics
  • Place

• Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Person
  • Worried
  • Conversations

• I always collect images, maybe because I was working with historic material - but even if I were working with contemporary material, I would do the same thing. I keep a kind of index of them while I'm working. I find them incredibly useful, not so much to illustrate a time, but to give some sense of the feeling of a time.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Find

• New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Myself
  • New York

• I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Today
  • Look
  • Too Much

• Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • Time
  • Great
  • Country

• I moved to Paris for two years, then to London, then New York in 2002. In that time, I also lived in Japan, Italy, Germany - I've been a bit of a gypsy.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Time
  • New York
  • Paris

• Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Live
  • Paris
  • Bored

• I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.

  

  Danielle Steel
  • House
  • California
  • Paris

• I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • True
  • College
  • Child

• Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

  

  Pontus Hulten
  • Paris