Michel Gondry Quotes
I like collaboration, I like to incorporate other people's ideas and that's what happens when you do a big movie. Unless you're called Stanley Kubrick and you do an independent movie for like $200 million.
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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It really comes down to being able to inspire others by being comfortable with yourself. You have to show girls that everyone is different; everyone has things they don't like, but they work it and walk the runway.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
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In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.
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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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We can choose food that doesn't lead to illnesses like diabetes and cancer. We can choose food that doesn't contribute to water pollution and climate change. And we can choose food that keeps local economies vibrant and farmers on their land.
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As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.
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I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
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I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.
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I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of the world. I don't see it that way. I feel Los Angeles is a place of almost primal struggle and survival. It's not a city that embraces its inhabitants.
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To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.
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I am not a cynic.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.
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I like collaboration, I like to incorporate other people's ideas and that's what happens when you do a big movie. Unless you're called Stanley Kubrick and you do an independent movie for like $200 million.
