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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

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#novelists #past #present #story #tell

In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#going #hate #job #just #love

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 don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#cynical #humour #i #irony #makes

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

I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#charlie #combination #compare #different #different level

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

— Billy Graham

#give me #god #grace #hope #me

I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#believed #encouragement #friends #get #had

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