Damien Chazelle Quotes
I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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Gags die, humor doesn't.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their husbands.
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Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
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Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.
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Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.
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My first policy move would be to try to get a conversation going in the US about what people stand for and what we really want. Do we want to keep adding people to the world and to our country until we move to a battery-chicken kind of existence and then collapse? Or do we want to think hard about what really is valuable to us, and figure out how many people we can supply that to sustainably?
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
