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Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard
Age: 93
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
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When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.
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A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.
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I write and film history I don't make it.
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The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.
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