Michel Gondry Quotes
Competition impedes creativity because you present yourself in a way that's going to been seen by somebody outside of you. You're not very much yourself and it limits you.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
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I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
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I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
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I am a very big admirer of Hillary's and I am an admirer of Obama as well.
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I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. 'It's that way with people, too,' he said, 'only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.'
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I think if more people actually pursued what they loved, we'd have a lot more innovation and creativity.
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If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.
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Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.
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Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.
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We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.
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Competition impedes creativity because you present yourself in a way that's going to been seen by somebody outside of you. You're not very much yourself and it limits you.
