Agnes Varda Quotes
People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
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I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.
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I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
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I love clothes so much. I feel like whatever I wear is an insight for other people to get to see who I am, or for me to portray how I'm feeling.
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I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
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I don't know if it is of any joy to humiliate people. No matter what, whether you're high in life or low in life, humiliation and such kinds of things should just be ignored. I don't derive any pleasure from running people down.
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The idea that women compete or don't like each other or undermine each other or sabotage each other, that's a big miss. That is not true at all. At all. My women connect with each other instantly and help each other.
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Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.
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Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.
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We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas.
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Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
