Catherine Breillat Quotes

I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.

Catherine Breillat

• People
• Passion
• Mean
• Dark
• Despair
• Idealism

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• I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Song

• We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

  

  T-Pain
  • Learn
  • Surroundings
  • Adjust

• We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Just
  • Hollywood
  • Bowl

• The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• As long as Hamas needs the support it could conceivably get from the international community through the Palestinian Authority, it has an interest in playing nice with Fatah. And Fatah has an interest in playing nice with Hamas because it needs some source of legitimacy on the West Bank.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Long
  • Community
  • Support

• Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Honesty
  • Treat

• You think that the poor and oppressed people of Bihar will ever forget Lalu Yadav? I am the only one who has done something for them. The people know that. They also know that the rest (of the political class) are useless.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Done
  • Political

• I have worn things that are too tight, and I've learned over the years that just because the size on the tag says something smaller doesn't mean it looks good on you.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Good

• The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.

  

  James Douglas
  • People
  • Small

• Below-target inflation increases the real value of debts owed by households and businesses and reduces the ability of central banks to respond to downturns.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Real
  • Value

• You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

  

  Douglas Wilder
  • Stop
  • Service

• My mom made me look in the mirror every day and say three things that I loved about myself. At first, I couldn't name anything. It was so sad. When my mom made me do that, I looked in the mirror, and I literally couldn't name one thing that I loved about myself.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Mom
  • Sad
  • Mirror

• When it's all about the work, it's clear who in the company is pulling their weight and who isn't.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Work

• Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Life
  • House
  • Rest

• Panned or not, 'Dune' is a real part of science-fiction filmmaking.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Real
  • Science

• Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Lazy

• If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Law
  • Smart
  • Judge

• Every time I start chasing my tail, and I'm trying to control all these elements of my universe, I pray, 'I'm not in control of any of this. I can just do the best I can. Please guide me. Please help me figure how I can move through this in the way You would have me.'

  

  Cheryl Ladd
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Help

• I've come to realise that the best teachers never stop being teachers.

  

  Kimberly Quinn
  • Stop

• I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

  

  Isabel Vargas Lizano
  • Life
  • Friend

• It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

  

  Aristotle
  • Know
  • Say
  • Sufficient

• People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

  

  Marsha Norman
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Writing
  • Giving
  • Journey

• I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.

  

  Catherine Breillat
  • People
  • Passion
  • Mean