Michel Gondry Quotes

If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent. And so, that's a way to see the world as everybody is equal, not as a result of politics, but as human beings.

Michel Gondry

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• As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.

  

  Vincent Cassel
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• You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

  

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• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

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• I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Home
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• I was a normal American nerd.

  

  Jack Herer
  • American
  • Normal
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• I come from a background where money has never been an issue.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Money
  • Never
  • Where

• Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • History
  • Bad

• Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?

  

  Sam Weller
  • May
  • Age
  • Deep

• When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • Energy
  • Band

• Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Girlfriend
  • Dating

• Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Good
  • Books
  • Less

• But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • Money
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• And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Better
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• Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Life
  • Women
  • Business

• Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Mind

• I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • School
  • High
  • Basketball

• I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music.

  

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  • People
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• All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Good Deeds

• That's how me and my friends are. We love our personal relationships, but we have things we want to accomplish.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Friends

• One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, `I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm going to do some films,' and his audience is very forgiving, because they understand him as an artist. Whether you agree or like the result, you respect that he's expressing his artistic feelings.

  

  Maynard James Keenan
  • Music
  • Respect

• I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.

  

  Lawrence Taylor
  • Life
  • Rules
  • Ignored

• If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent. And so, that's a way to see the world as everybody is equal, not as a result of politics, but as human beings.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • World
  • Children
  • Speak