Agnes Varda Quotes
You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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I am pretty self-indulgent.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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My music relies solely on the feeling. Just the feeling.
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I like that best as I am so hairy.
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Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.
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The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.
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Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
