Raoul Peck Quotes

Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room.

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• I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Music
  • Career
  • Rock

• My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Father

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Will

• I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • World
  • Knows
  • Robert W. Chambers

• But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • Rest

• There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Light
  • End
  • Train

• It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Always
  • Difficult
  • Lie

• I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Life
  • Nice

• This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Celebrity

• America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • World
  • America

• So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Own
  • Praise
  • Others

• I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Growing

• People ask me about the decision to transition from fashion to 'Rookie' magazine. But it wasn't a decision. I was 14, and my interests were changing.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Me
  • Fashion

• Let your customers be your partners; let your vendors be your employees. What's necessary in this transformation more than anything else is courage and a willingness to change.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Change
  • Courage
  • Transformation

• Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • First
  • Survival
  • Priority

• Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.

  

  Paracelsus

• The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning, and then you are constantly communicating to the various people that begin to come into the process, as you are trying to manage to hold on to a vision that needs to be communicated over a long period of time.

  

  Kathleen Kennedy
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The people that usually have the most trouble with my books are the ones that pick them apart from a theological point of view.

  

  Frank Peretti
  • People

• A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

  

  Corita Kent
  • World
  • Universe
  • Rest

• The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women

• I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.

  

  Paulo Costanzo
  • Up
  • Hand

• Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room.

  

  Raoul Peck
  • People
  • Thinking