Michel Gondry Quotes
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
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I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.
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I had worked in Hindi films like 'Jaago,' 'Abra Ka Dabra,' 'Koi Mil Gaya,' but 'Desamuduru' was a different experience.
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To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.
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I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
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Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
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He exuded confidence without ever looking as is he wanted to make sure everyone else knew how confident he was.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring.
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So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.
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I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.
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Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight. The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power.
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It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
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If I had done what I was programmed to do, I would now be sitting in a car factory looking at the sizes of wheels, or wondering how to get credit to start a new factory in Russia.
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March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I don't like to put people in a competition to defeat the other.
