Michel Gondry Quotes

The problem is when you get forced to use ideas that aren't good. When I can filter the ideas and use the best of them, I am happy to collaborate.

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• Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Harassment

• You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Problem
  • Military
  • Dignity

• The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Ideas

• I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Responsibility
  • Show
  • Use

• People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.

  

  Gary Larson
  • People
  • Work
  • Ideas

• Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.

  

  Ice T
  • Work
  • Great
  • Problem

• You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Long
  • May
  • Problem

• Regardless of what you're searching, you ain't gonna find it until you include God. Because, if you have a problem with women, drugs, or whatever the case may be, the only person that can fix that problem is God.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • God
  • Women
  • May

• Without a dog, I would have tassels on my throw pillows instead of little stubs of yarn that look like small worms. The pillows seem to function just fine without the tassels, so perhaps it isn't a problem.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Small
  • Problem
  • Dog

• It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Circumstances

• My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Great
  • Father
  • Problem

• If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • You
  • Problem

• We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • American
  • Fun
  • Single

• It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Tennis

• This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Problem
  • Driving
  • Were

• I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Small
  • Me
  • Ideas

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they become bigger than they should be, really. There are things that people do every day in their little workshops that they'll take to heaven with them. You've got to realise that it's not everything, making films.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • People
  • Problem
  • Day

• Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Problem
  • Impossible
  • Solved

• How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... As a youth I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my ideas carried out at Niagara and marveled at the unfathomable mystery of the mind.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • America
  • Ideas
  • Imagination

• People don't need to become more aware of poverty - they need to know how to end it.

  

  Hugh Evans
  • Poverty
  • Aware

• The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Laughed
  • Handsome
  • Enthusiastically

• The problem is when you get forced to use ideas that aren't good. When I can filter the ideas and use the best of them, I am happy to collaborate.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Problem
  • Ideas
  • Use