Chantal Akerman Quotes

I never felt that I belonged. When I was at school... First I went to a Jewish school, when I was very little. But when I was 12, they put me in a school with a lot of traditions, and they were educated people and they were talking about Greece and the Parthenon and I don't know what.

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• Make that extra effort for every relationship. Whether it's with your parents, your children, your husband or your friends. It makes a difference to them. I try to give my kids a lot of solo time where I play with them, talk to them, listen to them. Similarly, you give time for your workout. You slot a time for it, no matter what.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Want
  • Peace
  • Security

• Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Chance
  • Year
  • Birthday

• You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • People
  • Know
  • Enjoy

• We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • High
  • Quality
  • Challenges

• I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • New
  • Warrior
  • Princess

• In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Government
  • Justice
  • Absence

• The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Up
  • Different
  • Together

• Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Age

• I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Life
  • Trying
  • My Life

• I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren't pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Think
  • Questions
  • Dignity

• I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Years
  • Old

• A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • She
  • Kids
  • Mother

• You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Guy
  • Player
  • Film

• There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Work
  • Competition

• At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Age
  • Me

• Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Good
  • American
  • Man

• People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• I always tell people, when they ask me what to do to be a writer or to be a performer, the key is to go to a place where there are a lot of other people who are trying to do the same thing as you and taking it very seriously.

  

  Colin Jost
  • People
  • Trying

• But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy.

  

  Jhonen Vasquez
  • She
  • Friends
  • Happy

• I never felt that I belonged. When I was at school... First I went to a Jewish school, when I was very little. But when I was 12, they put me in a school with a lot of traditions, and they were educated people and they were talking about Greece and the Parthenon and I don't know what.

  

  Chantal Akerman
  • People
  • School