Bruno Dumont Quotes

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

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• I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Business
  • She
  • Fun

• I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • People
  • Important
  • Long

• I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Want
  • Capitalism

• If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Life
  • Work
  • Day

• I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Progress

• I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Words
  • Like
  • Painting

• Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Words
  • Moments
  • Daughter

• More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Me
  • Wish
  • Manager

• We're all idealistic when young.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Young
  • Idealistic

• Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Smile
  • Laugh

• It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Know
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  • Beginning

• So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Age
  • Picture
  • Learn

• I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Green

• Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Up
  • Family
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• People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Picture
  • Year

• Only silence perfects silence.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Silence
  • Only

• I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Love
  • Working
  • Friday

• I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Dream
  • Journey
  • Professional

• The fashion sector is very hot in New York, especially the fashion tech sector, and a lot of women have been the leaders in the industry.

  

  Aslaug Magnusdottir
  • Women
  • Fashion

• Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world's community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.

  

  Bill Drayton
  • World
  • Good
  • Business

• I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Abuse
  • Overcome
  • Neglect

• Charting is a little like surfing. You dont have to know a lot about the physics of tides, resonance, and fluid dynamics in order to catch a good wave. You just have to be able to sense when its happening and then have the drive to act at the right time.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Able
  • Physics
  • Surfing

• To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

  

  Bruno Dumont
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