Francois Truffaut Quotes
The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.
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I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.
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You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
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I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.
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Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.
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Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
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The 1963 Corvair, which has some remarkable characteristics. It's one of the few cars I know that can do the bossa nova on dry pavement and the watusi on wet.
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Be content - Expansions, diffusions - content to be The unspotted imbecile revery, The heraldic center of the world Of blue, blue sleek with a hundred chins, The amorist Adjective aflame...
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There are two things that I feel very happy about from my tenure as Director of Health in Hong Kong: we introduced primary health care and preventive services from conception to old age; and we worked with herbalists to put Traditional Chinese Medicine on a firm footing of promotion, development and regulation.
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I can't remember those words (Lyrics) even when we were on tour.
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
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God Bless my mother and father for all the hard work they've done for our family.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a new financial product would save a user given their present financial situation.
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No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.
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Maybe my sister and I shared more than we thought. We were both waiting and wishing for something we couldn't completely control: I wanted to be alone, and she the total opposite. It was weird, really, to have something so contrary in common. But at least it was something.
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The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
