Luc Besson Quotes
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My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
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These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.
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People will love you and support you when it's beneficial.
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We started off 0-4 and, for this team, it is just a matter of everybody stepping up their play to the level of the captains. I am still not pleased with the way we are playing. It is the small things, but this win shows that we can play with the best.
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It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face.
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Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.
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Brand is everything, the stuff you want to communicate to consumers and the stuff you communicate despite yourself.
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The failures of urban renewal reflect a failure at all levels of government to realize that people, not structures, really determine a city’s success.
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A great European war under modern conditions would be a catastrophe for which previous wars afforded no precedent. In old days nations could collect only portions of their men and resources at a time and dribble them out by degrees. Under modern conditions whole nations could be mobilized at once and their whole life-blood and resources poured out in a torrent. Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction. The financial strain and the expenditure of wealth would be incredible. I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.
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Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee.
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We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.
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The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business."
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If you don’t have a struggle inside or around you, you have to make one up.
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It's often said that elephants are the most human of animals - there's something comical about their acquiescence, and tragic also. The long elephant poem - I was trying to write from the point of view of someone who had been seduced by the logic of his punishers and who, in a kind of awful way, could reproduce the very logic that had put him in this predicament in the first place. And maybe, in some kind of minor way, that's something I feel about myself, or maybe about all selves, that they fall in love with the thing that oppresses them.
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And I believe that I will never be able to hate any human being for his so-called 'wickedness,' that I shall only hate the evil that is within me, though hate is perhaps putting it too strongly even then. In any case, we cannot be lax enough in what we demand of others and strict enough in what we demand of ourselves.
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Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer.
