Palme Quotes

#1. When my husband won the Palme d'Or in 2002, I wore the same dress two days in a row. My daughter said, 'Mom! Did you sleep in your dress?' But I think it's cool to wear the same thing. I have to feel comfortable.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#2. Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or and people said: "Wait a minute, he's actually smart and he knows what he's doing!" I feel that with Hostel, any time you make a film like that it's going to illicit a strong reaction and you can't worry about that.

Eli Roth

#3. The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts.
We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can't remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts.

Shams-i Tabrizi

#4. Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.

J.M. Roberts

#5. We say yes to the society of solidarity and democracy where free people together, in mutual respect and under mutual responsibility, shape a life where everyone has equal opportunities and equal value.

Olof Palme

#6. I'm try-sexual. I'll try anything once

Pink

#7. The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.

Michel Chossudovsky

#8. The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

Olof Palme

#9. For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

Olof Palme

#10. Apartheid cannot be reformed, it has to be eliminated.

Olof Palme

#11. Count every second of your life as the greatest blessing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. 'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original and his first AM hit was nothing if it wasn't the example per excellence of the Sly Stone music machine.

Jon Landau

#13. We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

Mary Russell Mitford

#14. Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.

Bruce Feiler

#15. There are a million good tunes.

Marian McPartland

#16. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps a-field.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#17. Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them.

Olof Palme

#18. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. The moment you have subtitles and you have to speak Chinese, you already limit your global audience.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#20. But there are times, I would argue, when fiction delivers the greater truth.

Leslie Cockburn