Michel Gondry Quotes
I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.'
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
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That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
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There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.
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We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.
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I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.
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I think that's how most families are, really. Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world.
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The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song - not one. Not two.
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Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one’s mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.
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Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.
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Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically.
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I have asked people repeated follow-ups for a while and asked people uncomfortable questions for a while. I just try to hold people accountable.
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Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
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I'd like to see my grandchildren climb trees, not stand under them. I'd like to see them learn to make bread and brown it over a fire using my toasting fork.
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I was rambunctious - a boy's boy, full of energy. I wasn't a bad kid. I just liked to talk.
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I had no idea that two young linebackers could play like they've been in the league seven or eight years. They're like brothers.
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In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a culture responsive mainly to orders from the top down to one responsive to patients, in which patient safety is put first.
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There are days when I love a fresh blow-dry, but sometimes I just go with bedhead.
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I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.'
