Michel Gondry Quotes

The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.

Michel Gondry

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• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

  

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• Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.

  

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• Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.

  

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• I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.

  

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• There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

  

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• What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.

  

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• It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!

  

  Warwick Davis
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• I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.

  

  Jack Anderson
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• I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

  

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• Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.

  

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• The machine of awards season is very stressful. But this is the Oscars! It's your peers, your heroes, people you admire, the people who inspired you to get into this work in the first place. It's a pretty overwhelming feeling when you think about it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• Most people go to ashrams or retreats to destress and rejuvenate themselves. But I come back to my roots, the place where I spent half my life. And when I return, I spend time in the farms, eating a stalk of sugarcane, driving a tractor, and chilling with childhood friends.

  

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• People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
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• Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that I watch and grab a few quotes and start writing on paper. From there, I record a really rough version and work on the song.

  

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• Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

  

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• I don’t tell myself I am a hero. People do look up to performers and think of them as heroes...Hero worship in India is too big. It is both right and wrong. It is fair to respect people who have done things that others haven’t but it is not right to traet them as gods.

  

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• I like it when, you know, 3-under wins, you know, 20-under par, it just brings so many other people into contention.

  

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• I always tell people I romanticize about doing something simple, like doing radio in northern California.

  

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• The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the infancy, but above all the Passion, where you can find images for every stage and every moment.

  

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• Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.

  

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• Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.

  

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• What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?

  

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• The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • People
  • Song
  • Reason