Isabelle Kocher Quotes

The promise of individual and collective emancipation implicit in the notion of progress appears to be broken.

Isabelle Kocher

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• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• 'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Free
  • Thought
  • Slaves

• Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Women
  • Service
  • Grow

• I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Done

• Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.

  

  B. B. King
  • You
  • Play
  • Blue

• For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• 'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Power
  • Funny

• You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • You
  • Die
  • Craft

• Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Important
  • Women
  • Me

• Lucky fools do not bear the slightest suspicion that they may be lucky fools - by definition, they do not know that they belong to such a category.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • May

• The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Life
  • High

• How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves! ... You can always - always - give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness!

  

  Anne Frank
  • World
  • Great
  • Help

• Walk on.

  

  Bruce Lee

• However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Good
  • Help
  • Science

• You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

  

  Jeff Tweedy
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Energy

• Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

  

  Archibald Hill
  • World
  • Good
  • Understanding

• I don't have to work with superstars - I want to work with cool artists that make super music.

  

  J Balvin
  • Work
  • Music
  • Cool

• I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Important
  • She
  • America

• Democracy will win - because a government’s legitimacy can only come from citizens; because in this age of information and empowerment, people want more control over their lives, not less; and because, more than any other form of government ever devised, only democracy, rooted in the sanctity of the individual, can deliver real progress.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Real
  • Age

• The harder stuff has always done it for me. Man, if it rips, I'll give it a thumbs up!

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Up
  • Done

• It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Alone

• The promise of individual and collective emancipation implicit in the notion of progress appears to be broken.

  

  Isabelle Kocher
  • Progress
  • Promise
  • Emancipation