Raoul Peck Quotes

I just hope that my films will survive me.

Raoul Peck

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• I always like to sing barefoot.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Like
  • Always
  • Barefoot

• Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Small
  • Noise

• Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • History
  • Man
  • Me

• People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Goal
  • Ask

• First there was the New Hampshire primary, and we had nearly a year leading up to it. And now, look! Three primaries in one weekend! How many of these things are they going to have?

  

  Ed Helms
  • Up
  • Look
  • New

• Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Deserve
  • Ways
  • Agree

• When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Music
  • Art
  • Happy

• I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • House
  • Fall
  • Expect

• Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Language

• Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Real
  • Night

• If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • People
  • Spring
  • Greek

• I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

  

  Dorothea Lange
  • Believe
  • Beautiful

• Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.

  

  Marc Maron
  • Business

• I can express gratitude for the simple act of being able to breathe in and breathe out. I can move away from darkness and depression to light and hope. I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. I am me, the true me; you are you, the true you - and that's good. That's beautiful. That's enough.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Good
  • True
  • Happy

• I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Scars

• You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Strong
  • Film
  • Directors

• That's kind of the weird thing about Salad Days. I had to block time off from touring and tell my management and label like no press, no nothing. Let me make an album. You guys are running me dead.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Time
  • Running
  • Weird

• When I talk to film students, I always say, "Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes," because that's such a great learning tool.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Film
  • Students
  • Scene

• When an actor commits himself to a role as fully as Russell Crowe does in the grandiose and silly 'Gladiator,' you may ask yourself why and at the same time thank him for his absorption in the part.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Time
  • Why
  • May

• Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

  

  George Eliot
  • Mistake
  • Prophecy
  • Gratuitous

• A spot was available here on the right wing, so I'm hoping I can slide in and contribute as best I can. The fact that I'm playing in a Canadian market, the beauty of Vancouver with its incredible weather and things to do, that's just icing on the cake.

  

  Anson Carter
  • Playing
  • Contribute
  • Vancouver

• I just hope that my films will survive me.

  

  Raoul Peck
  • Film
  • Survive