Leos Carax Quotes

I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.

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• We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • High
  • Energy
  • Cost

• Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • My Life

• If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Death
  • Process
  • Still

• Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Doing

• I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.

  

  Rain
  • Food
  • Hamburgers
  • Fries

• People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Want
  • Hurt

• It's important to see color. We are not the same. We have very different experiences.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Different
  • Important
  • Color

• I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Day

• Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Realize

• Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Rhythm
  • Instrument
  • Moves

• I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Work
  • Done
  • Many

• Whatever is supreme in a state, ought to have, as much as possible, its judicial authority so constituted as not only not to depend upon it, but in some sort to balance it. It ought to give a security to its justice against its power. It ought to make its judicature, as it were, something exterior to the state.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • Justice
  • Balance

• The Little Boy’s Bed-Time See under Translations

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Time
  • Boy

• The Truth Apparent, apparent to everyone's eyes who are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps weary of liberty. They have a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • People
  • Men
  • Truth

• How many people have had starter marriages? For some reason, mine really offends people.

  

  Jessica Seinfeld
  • People

• I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Trust

• I ran track in college. And that team, that all-lady team that I was on, I can remember just being so incredibly sad that I knew we were all going to leave each other after we graduated and that our lives would change. And even though I was the bridesmaid at all their weddings and stuff like that, it's just not the same, right?

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Remember
  • Team
  • College

• Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.

  

  Don McLean

• One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • Long
  • Education
  • Books

• Stonewall Jackson was master of all he surveyed. Two Union forces were withdrawing from his front. There was a certain beautiful symmetry to it. The campaign, which started with a single enemy army pursuing Jackson southward through the valley, would end with two beaten Union armies withdrawing from him in a northerly direction. A week later, Jackson advised his mapmaker, Hotchkiss, to 'never take counsel of your fears.' A person who followed such advice would be doomed to a short life.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Single

• I have an incredible compass. You can put me back in a country I haven't been in 20 years and say, 'Get me from point A to point B,' and I'll take you there.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Country
  • Point
  • Compass

• I did a lot of commercials starting in about '75, yeah. Well, not 'a lot'; I never was a big old commercial gal, but I made a good living. I didn't immediately make 'a living' at commercials; the first year I made maybe a living was about '80. I had a great year in '85. I had a nice little supplement.

  

  Margo Martindale
  • Good
  • Great
  • Nice

• I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.

  

  Leos Carax