Francois Nars Quotes

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• I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Change
  • Possible

• I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Football
  • Player

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Music
  • Like
  • Choice

• The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• You have to know you can first. How comes later.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • You
  • Know
  • First

• If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Me
  • Best
  • Actor

• The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Truth
  • Search
  • Truth Is

• I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Like
  • Secret
  • Wrong

• Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mean
  • Nose
  • Solar

• Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Women
  • Kind
  • Movies

• Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Gracious

• Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Earth
  • Me
  • Nobody

• You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Live
  • Today
  • Feelings

• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Decisions
  • Invite

• I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • God
  • Movie
  • Acting

• You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Measure

• I commit words to paper and the Internet for everyone to pick apart, so I think I tend to be a lot more cynical and dulled.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • Words

• When somebody's face-to-face with you saying, 'I may not have been here had I not read your book,' how do you respond to that? The first several times I traveled, it was almost too much. I was totally grateful, but emotionally, it was really hard.

  

  Jay Asher
  • May
  • Book

• Music is a spiritual doorway its power comes from the fact that it plugs directly into the soul, unlike a lot of visual art or textual information that has to go through the more filtering processes of the brain.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Music
  • Art
  • Power

• Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Time
  • Different
  • Football

• The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Weakness
  • Destroy

• True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that's mesmerizingly timeless.

  

  Francois Nars
  • Life
  • True