Leos Carax Quotes

Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.

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• And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Live
  • Dream

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Think
  • Energy
  • Fast

• I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Good
  • Music
  • Soul

• I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Everything

• The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Bad
  • Soul
  • Simple

• Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Power
  • Today
  • Freedom

• It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• 'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.

  

  Nas
  • Career
  • Album
  • Debut

• The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Experience
  • Bitter

• My ambition is to hit .400 and talk 1.000.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Ambition

• He was tall and very dark-skinned and he had fabulously blond hair and a voice that could raise bumps on your skin at a hundred meters, or, better still, millimeters.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Dark
  • Hair

• The Hudson's Bay Company, before their misfortunes in the late war, had been much more fortunate than the Royal African Company.

  

  Adam Smith
  • War

• In the morning, we sliced all the vegetables and layered everything up in a pot with a glass of Riesling. On the way to church, we dropped it off with the baker, who sealed the lid with a strip of dough and put it in his oven for a couple of hours. We picked it up at 12 o'clock and took it home to eat with mustard and salad.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Up
  • Home
  • Church

• I got a chance to work with Judi Dench in almost every scene. How many Indian actors get that chance?

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Work

• The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Happy
  • Success

• Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

  

  David Hume
  • Nature
  • Science

• I was angry and frustrated when I was younger and didn't know my place in the world.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • World
  • Angry

• We have had to play some mighty tough audiences.

  

  Doc Watson

• Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don’t think of grown-ups, and we don’t think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Children
  • Picture

• Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Kind
  • Film
  • Literature

• Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Night

• At my first tournament, about four years ago, I got four twos. Now I have a poker problem. I do win every so often, so that's what keeps me going.

  

  Cheryl Hines

• Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.

  

  Leos Carax