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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#dead #devoted #labor #labor day #living

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#everything #finds #live #looks #men

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#barbarism #bring #civilization #die #every

I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.' ↗

— Michel Gondry

#am #consume #consumer #contradiction #could

I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to not have one entity who creates the work, the project, and another entity who consumes it; the idea is people create their own work, like somebody cultivating his garden. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#another #come #community #consumes #create

God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world. ↗

— Billy Graham

#give me #god #grace #hope #me

I learned to drive when I was 35. I'm driving like an old lady and very close to the wheel. I don't take many risks, and when people yell at me I say 'sorry, sorry, sorry!' I don't have road rage yet. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#drive #driving #i #lady #learned

I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet as possible, and flexible enough to be able to capture the moment when it happens. I know from documentary how to not have a preconceived idea of what the scene could be. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#both #camera #capture #cases #could

My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#appliances #attic #beatles #beatles songs #called

Sometimes it's interesting to see something that you're not used to seeing, which is the main ingredient of life, and it's removed from the usual entertainment. I think it's important to give the opportunity to people to witness the life of somebody who was not public. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#give #i #i think #important #ingredient