Leos Carax Quotes

Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

Leos Carax

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• I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Control
  • Government
  • Blame

• You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. That means new technologies.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Energy
  • Choose

• Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Work
  • Think
  • Training

• My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Teacher
  • Brother
  • Sister

• Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
  • Down
  • Sides

• I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Good
  • Enemy
  • Doing

• You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • Day
  • Treat

• We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Soul

• I went to Carnegie Mellon.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Carnegie

• In England or America, actors do not have to cater to an image. In India, it is almost demanded of us. Very seldom do you get a film where you can walk away from your image.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • America
  • You
  • Walk

• On any given night - there are nights that you feel better. There are nights that you are vocally better. There are nights that you are not as vocally good. No question about it.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Good
  • Night
  • Question

• I deeply believe that men and women need each other.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Honest
  • Politician

• If my favourite director gives me a role that is very sparkly? A very brilliant character? I'll do it.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Character
  • Role
  • Sparkly

• Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, - who is good? not that men are ignorant, - what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Men
  • Truth

• 'Touch'

  

  Octavio Paz

• When women entered the workplace, many men were mentors to them and, in turn, also learned to respect women’s unique contributions (for example, their listening and facilitative skills). Now, as we give men responsibilities to care for children, women must be among the mentors, and we must also learn to respect men’s unique contributions.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Men

• I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn't a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Good
  • Believe
  • School

• Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • Up
  • Long
  • Give

• So you wake up this morning and find you're president of the United States. Pretty cool, no? Helicopters and a 747 at your disposal; courtside seats at any NBA playoff game of your choice; everyone stands up and the band plays when you come into the room.

  

  Jeff Greenfield
  • Up
  • Game
  • Pretty

• To effectively reach consumers in the new social environment, brand managers need to learn how to translate their budgets into the digital realm, which also means understanding the advantages that digital can provide over television advertising.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Understanding
  • Environment

• Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

  

  Leos Carax