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
  • She
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  • 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
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• 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
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• 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

• We're all idealistic when young.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Young
  • Idealistic

• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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  • Friends

• 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
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• 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 didn't aim at anything except good music.

  

  Waylon Jennings
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• No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.

  

  Ma Jun
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• 'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• I gain strength from postive thought and from the daily conversation with God.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • God
  • Daily
  • Strength

• It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.

  

  Albert Claude
  • Live
  • Struggle
  • Search

• The fact that I have a Southern accent and write about a lot of rural things leads people to put me in the country category.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • People
  • Country

• What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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  • Why
  • Today

• If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

  

  Jean Kerr

• 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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