Top 27 Assayas Quotes
#1. I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.
Emmanuelle Beart
#2. The more risk averse a person is, the higher his or her religiosity [ ... ]. In other words, risk-averse people don't want to take a chance on getting on the wrong side of god.
Darrel Ray
#3. Friendship is higher than love. Sometimes, it's less glamorous, or less passionate, but it's deeper and kind of wiser, I think.
Michka Assayas
#4. I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.
Michka Assayas
#5. But I'd be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge. I'd be in deep shit. It doesn't excuse my mistakes, but I'm holding out for Grace. I'm holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross, because I know who I am, and I hope I don't have to depend on my own religiosity.
Michka Assayas
#7. Gun control responsibilities are taking police officers off the street and adding to crime.
Stockwell Day
#8. It's interesting because when you're in a show for a year, your life really isn't your own for that whole period.
James Snyder
#9. I fell in love with you because there was a mischief in your eyes.
Michka Assayas
#10. Look, the job of life is to turn your negatives into positives
Michka Assayas
#11. My point about alcohol is that if you abuse something, it abuses you back.
Michka Assayas
#12. So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#13. A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
Carl Sandburg
#14. I realize that a lot of business leaders may disagree with me, but I truly believe that God belongs in what my company does. By putting Him first in my operations, He can bless what I attempt.
David Green
#15. By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to.
Michael Moore
#16. Where that rage comes from? Partly, I would say it's a sense that a life can be taken away from you, quickly, in a dumb second for the dumbest reason. That makes me mad, defensive and protective.
Michka Assayas
#17. A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#18. I think cynicism often disguises itself as humour.
Michka Assayas
#19. All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free
Voltaire
#20. I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It's just cleaner and more snappy. And the adult books have multiple points-of-view. In my Y.A., it's always third person from the main character's perspective.
Gail Carriger
#21. I don't like to abuse alcohol-anything you abuse will abuse you back.
Michka Assayas
#22. There's a chasm between envy and desire. Envy is like wanting something that's not yours. But desire is different. Desire comes out of wanting what is yours, and still wanting it even if it's not yet there, but it's not envy.
Michka Assayas
#24. I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland.
Ewan McGregor
#25. Of course the thinking mind must sooner or later be controlled, developed, and supplied with the force of will for a break-through to non-thinking, a direct experience of non-duality. But at what stage?
Christmas Humphreys
#26. So how did you end up making a fool of yourself in front of twenty thousand people?
I had a bigger hole to fill.
What do you mean?
A rock star is someone with a hole in his heart almost the size of his ego.
Michka Assayas
#27. They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.
Lillie Langtry
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