Luc Besson Quotes

You humans act so strange. Everything you create is used to destroy.

Luc Besson

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• I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Knowledge
  • Movies
  • Legacy

• I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Love
  • Stars
  • Dancing

• It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Free
  • Sin
  • Clean

• Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Character
  • Jesus
  • Stand

• Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Life
  • Women
  • Peace

• People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Work
  • Too Much

• If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.

  

  Barry Diller
  • You
  • Now
  • Stock

• From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Great
  • Love
  • Success

• We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Why
  • Political
  • Change

• At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'

  

  Damian Marley
  • Remember
  • Cool
  • Listening

• I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Think
  • Me
  • Hard

• Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Space
  • Religious

• Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'

  

  Barbara Billingsley
  • True
  • Wish
  • Dreams

• I grew up with reggae music.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Up
  • Music
  • Reggae

• More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Important
  • Love
  • Peace

• Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Small
  • Worst
  • Getting

• I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me... Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • School
  • High

• Che tosto o buona o ria che la fama esceFuor d'una bocca, in infinito cresce.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Music
  • Guitar
  • Damaged

• I do think that all politicians today have to be more attentive to people wanting to be heard, wanting to have more control over their lives.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Today
  • Control

• The new 'Dark Knight' movies, they're wonderful in their own way.

  

  Adam West
  • Dark

• There were many times when I could have gone down the path of being a child star, which I know can be bad; I think, especially in L.A., it's easy to get caught up in that life.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Life
  • Up
  • Bad

• You humans act so strange. Everything you create is used to destroy.

  

  Luc Besson