Michel Gondry Quotes
If I have a good dream and I wake up happy. When I have an idea, I feel happy. Sometimes achievement and relationships can make me happy. I have a son and to see him grow - he's 22 now - that makes me happy.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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Beauty is not just physical.
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Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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I'm more of a thriller-horror fan - things that could really happen. I don't like scary movies, the 'Saw' movies scare the crap out of me - I think I've seen two of them and I wanted to go crawl in a hole.
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My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
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I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.
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The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
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There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.
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God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'
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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
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I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.
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It's funny - almost every comedian that I started out with moved to L.A., except for my two friends Hannibal Buress and Amy Schumer. And my two friends that are doing the best in comedy, the most successful friends I have, are Hannibal Buress and Amy Schumer.
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It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.
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Well I'm a-gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler About workin' all summer just to try an' earn a dollar Everytime I call my baby, to try to get a date My boss says, no dice, son, you gotta work late Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do 'cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.
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Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
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I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.
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If I have a good dream and I wake up happy. When I have an idea, I feel happy. Sometimes achievement and relationships can make me happy. I have a son and to see him grow - he's 22 now - that makes me happy.
