Michel Gondry Quotes

I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.

Michel Gondry

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• I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
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• I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Space
  • Years
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• When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • People
  • Young
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• You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.

  

  Nadia Giosia
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• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • God
  • Right
  • Sin

• I love fashion, and that's how I express myself.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Express Myself

• Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.

  

  Sam Kean
  • World
  • Country
  • Pretty

• I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Pretty
  • Teach
  • Preach

• When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I wasn't in it.

  

  Valerie June
  • World
  • Teenager
  • Happening

• Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Travel

• The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • America
  • War

• I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Work
  • God
  • Heart

• I'm by nature someone that quite likes to understand how things are working, likes some sense of structure, and I've fallen into the worst possible trade for that.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Nature
  • Understand
  • Possible

• Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
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• A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.

  

  Sabrina Lloyd
  • Always
  • Person
  • Someone

• You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Think
  • Career
  • Desire

• Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • Addiction
  • Shake

• All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Die
  • Universe
  • Body

• Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Edge
  • Doom

• Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Reality
  • Beginning
  • Divorce

• I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Parent
  • Tolerance
  • Encouragement