Luc Besson Quotes

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

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• As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Dance

• Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Time
  • Eye
  • News

• One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Best
  • Film
  • Leadership

• I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Want
  • Number
  • Object

• Y'know what? This is what I go by: It doesn't matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that's what would win me over. So, yeah.

  

  Rachel Bilson
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• I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?'

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Night
  • Technology
  • Morning

• I pack on mass quickly when I lift.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Mass
  • Lift
  • Quickly

• I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Children
  • Change
  • Try

• Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Real
  • Money
  • Inside

• When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Write
  • Worth

• You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Why
  • She
  • Fashion

• Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Good
  • Need
  • Product

• He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
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  • Fame

• You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.

  

  Victoria Moran
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  • Live
  • Money

• I love Comme des Garcons. I think everything she touches is almost like gold. And she does it so quietly. No branding.

  

  Kate Spade
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  • Like
  • Gold

• Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge show. Lots of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, like being launched off an aircraft carrier and being welcomed by military bases all over California.

  

  Patrick Labyorteaux
  • Movie
  • Military
  • Doing

• The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Different
  • Ideas
  • Politics

• Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Band
  • Two
  • Skills

• Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Substitute

• In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • History
  • Fact
  • Belong

• Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Hearts
  • Fact
  • Ideology

• The fact that she's a moderate makes it possible for them to slide over.

  

  Chris Mooney
  • Fact
  • Moderate
  • Slide Over

• The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Men
  • Character
  • Together

• I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

  

  Luc Besson
  • Fact
  • Concern
  • Short Film