Damien Chazelle Quotes

At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.

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• Nature is under control but not disturbed.

  

  Beatrix of the Netherlands
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• The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

  

  Laura Marling
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• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

  

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• I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.

  

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• Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.

  

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• I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.

  

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• When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.

  

  Tamron Hall
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• There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

  

  Walter Gilbert
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• My main thing is music; it's what I do.

  

  Vanilla Ice
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• My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

  

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• Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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• You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.

  

  Larry Brown
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• Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.

  

  Taylor Momsen
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• I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.

  

  Dan Hill
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• Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

  

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• The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• Both SOPA and PIPA are toxic. My view is that anyone who supports these bills either doesn't understand what they are supporting or is simply no friend of innovation. And, if you are no friend of innovation, I can't support you in any way, as innovation is the lifeblood of our economy, our country, and what I've dedicated my life to.

  

  Brad Feld
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• I don't think the BBC supporting digital switchover is top slicing. Top slicing is putting the license fee up for grabs for other broadcasters to bid for.

  

  Jeremy Hunt
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• I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
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• At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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