Jacques Villeneuve quote: "Winning the Indy 500 in 1995 and the Formula 1 championship in 1997 are very special moments for me, and the people in NASCAR show me respect for what I've achieved so far in my career."

It's sad that you don't see drivers being real people.
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

I'm a purist, and I love the sport. I loved the '60s and '70s, when the fans even enjoye...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

Both Indy Car and Formula 1 work in the same way, although there is a greater emphasis on developmen...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

My goal is not to be a race-car driver. The reason I'm racing is because I enjoy being in the car an...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

I'm a racer at heart more than anything else, and that will always be my priority: competing. Bu...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

F1 is giving penalties for people making mistakes instead of for people driving dirty. And that is w...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

My lady is fast but moody.
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

I hate it when politics play too large part in the sport.
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

If I knew I couldn't win races, I would have stayed in the States.
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

At the first corner everybody was going four abreast so I backed off a little,
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

He doesn't seem to have the personality for a No. 2: He is a fighter. He's not one who will just acc...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

I had to back off on one lap near the end because of yellow flags, but that happened while we were o...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

Everything bad about France was transferred to Quebec.
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

That was a pretty bad lap, ... The car was just sliding around all over the place.
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

If Michael really felt that Rubens deserved the win, all he had to do was slow down and cross the li...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

Spa is a great track! I've got memories of some adventures there, though it's never been lucky for m...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

I would rather have racing without computers. The human side is forgotten, and instead of talking ov...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the fut...
MARTIN VILLENEUVE

Problems are hidden opportunities, and constraints can actually boost creativity.
MARTIN VILLENEUVE

I was raised with James Bond. I love James Bond movies. I would love to do a James Bond movie one da...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

I'm coming from a small town in Quebec where, at that time, there was no Internet, and the way t...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

I'm among the hardcore fans of 'Blade Runner.' 'Blade Runner' is one of my favor...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

'2001: A Space Odyssey' is a movie that really impressed me as a teenager. And also 'Bla...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

I've been dreaming to do sci-fi since I was 10 years old, and I said 'no' to a lot of se...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

The idea, as a director, is to be able to bring everybody on board and to inspire and give energy to...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.
DENIS VILLENEUVE

I made 'Enemy' to prep myself for 'Prisoners.' I had the need to direct something sm...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

I would be trying to play hockey with my friends, but most of the time, the coach put me on the benc...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

I remember when I read the screenplay for 'Sicario,' I fell in love with it, but at the same...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. ...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with ...
MARTIN VILLENEUVE

Cannes is the oldest film festival in the world, and I've long dreamed of having one of my films...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved wo...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

A longstanding dream of mine is to adapt 'Dune,' but it's a long process to get the righ...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

From 'Polytechnique,' I started to get scripts and after 'Incendies,' of course, it ...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, m...
GILLES VILLENEUVE

I'm very sensitive about the fact that there's not a lot of good work for women in cinema th...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

I love, in movies, when you feel and you understand the past of the character without it being said ...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

The thing I realized about final cut is it's the power of the best cut. I didn't have final ...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

I will drive flat out all the time. I love racing.
GILLES VILLENEUVE

I was a sci-fi addict when I was a kid and a teenager. Novels, graphic novels, movies, it was my way...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

I think a good director is a good listener.
DENIS VILLENEUVE

The truth is, when I started to make films, I was terrified. I had a huge difference in what I was w...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

I was 'impressed' by Hugh Jackman for five seconds the first time I met him, but as soon as ...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

I had a lot of respect for Jeremy Renner as an actor before I worked with him, because I was very im...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's every...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

My home is Montreal. I will stay in Montreal and continue to make movies in Montreal. But it's a...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

I was at the premiere of 'Prisoners,' and I heard two thousand people scream at the same tim...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

When I work in English, I'd say I don't see a big difference in my rapport with my team or t...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

I think they built Hollywood on the West Coast because they were always dreaming of a New World. Whe...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

The reception for 'Enemy?' I don't care. No matter what other people think, it was impor...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

For me, masculinity is about control, and femininity is more of an embrace, the art of listening. It...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is co...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

[Said Fix of his qualifying effort,] We have been making changes all day, the car got quicker and we...
GILLES VILLENEUVE

I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.
JACQUES CARTIER

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would b...
JACQUES DERRIDA

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
JACQUES BARZUN

Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have...
MARTIN JACQUES

In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that t...
MARTIN JACQUES

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is ...
JACQUES BARZUN

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool...
JACQUES PREVERT

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of jo...
JACQUES CHIRAC

When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we ha...
JACQUES PARIZEAU

I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc...
BRIAN JACQUES

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qua...
JACQUES MARITAIN

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
JACQUES CHIRAC

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
JACQUES PREVERT

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was ...
JACQUES DERRIDA

Blair - except at the edges - was a Thatcherite. Brown, in contrast, regarded Thatcherism as somethi...
MARTIN JACQUES

There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had ...
MARTIN JACQUES

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their q...
JACQUES MARITAIN

Experience is the cane of the blind.
JACQUES ROUMAIN

Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit ...
BRIAN JACQUES

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning t...
JACQUES DERRIDA

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
JACQUES DERRIDA

Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige ot...
JACQUES MARITAIN

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable...
JACQUES MARITAIN

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of ...
JACQUES PREVERT

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
JACQUES MARITAIN

Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You ma...
JACQUES DERRIDA

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.
JACQUES DELILLE

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
JACQUES MARITAIN

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to unde...
JACQUES ATTALI

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a ...
JACQUES BARZUN

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
JACQUES BARZUN

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
JACQUES BARZUN

We see societies establishing themselves, nations forming themselves, which in turn dominate over ot...
JACQUES TURGOT

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen an...
JACQUES ATTALI

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
JACQUES DELILLE

How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people bo...
JACQUES PLANTE

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realiti...
JACQUES BARZUN

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
JACQUES BARZUN

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the c...
JACQUES BARZUN

God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality.
JACQUES RIGAUT

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends
JACQUES DELILLE

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
JACQUES BARZUN

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps...
JACQUES BARZUN

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realit...
JACQUES BARZUN

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
JACQUES DELILLE

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
JACQUES DEVAL

What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
JEPH JACQUES

Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for teaching is a lost tradition.
JACQUES BARZUN

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already mode...
JACQUES DERRIDA

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
JACQUES BARZUN

Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have be...
MARTIN JACQUES

If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprisi...
MARTIN JACQUES

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an Amer...
MARTIN JACQUES

Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my o...
JACQUES VERGES

In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a...
JACQUES DERRIDA

Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It...
MARTIN JACQUES

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
JACQUES DERRIDA

It is good for society to have this introspection.
JACQUES VERGES

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social...
JACQUES ELLUL

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
JACQUES LACAN

If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its ...
MARTIN JACQUES

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a ...
JACQUES DERRIDA

For everyday, we like Beaujolais, Grenache or Syrah, and we like a lot of it! It's a family trad...
JACQUES PEPIN

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose...
JACQUES PEPIN

When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no ...
JACQUES PEPIN

I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during...
JACQUES PEPIN

My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuba...
JACQUES PEPIN

I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or raci...
JACQUES PEPIN

I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothin...
JACQUES PEPIN

I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'E...
JACQUES PEPIN

You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream...
JACQUES PEPIN

I say: If you don't know how to cook, I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to...
JACQUES PEPIN

Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons....
JACQUES PEPIN

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you ge...
JACQUES PEPIN

If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.
JACQUES PEPIN

You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becom...
JACQUES PEPIN

Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what ...
JACQUES PEPIN

All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
JACQUES PEPIN

This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's ve...
JACQUES PEPIN

Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have mome...
JACQUES PEPIN

The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooki...
JACQUES PEPIN

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.
JACQUES PEPIN

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a gr...
JACQUES PEPIN

There is no ageism or 'youthism' when it comes to freedom of speech. We are all citizens.
JACQUES PARIZEAU

One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, i...
MARTIN JACQUES

Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The i...
MARTIN JACQUES

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person ...
JACQUES DELORS

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt demo...
JACQUES CHIRAC

Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, t...
MARTIN JACQUES

I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with c...
JACQUES PEPIN

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
JACQUES MARITAIN

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher cou...
BRIAN JACQUES

You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.
JACQUES ROUMAIN

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing...
JACQUES DERRIDA

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, thing...
JACQUES LIPCHITZ

marmfloxes
BRIAN JACQUES

The more 'otter it is, the more 'otter otters likes it
BRIAN JACQUES

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars,...
BRIAN JACQUES

Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!"

Alarm spread acr...
BRIAN JACQUES

A little (one) can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement ge...
BRIAN JACQUES

Eulaliiiaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BRIAN JACQUES

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.
BRIAN JACQUES

Wot Wot
BRIAN JACQUES

In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and ca...
MARTIN JACQUES

Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are sti...
MARTIN JACQUES

More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived ...
MARTIN JACQUES

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back t...
JACQUES DERRIDA

There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are...
MARTIN JACQUES

This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For ...
JACQUES PEPIN

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
JACQUES DERRIDA

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical...
JACQUES ELLUL

These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned....
JACQUES CHIRAC

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what ...
JACQUES PEPIN

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but com...
JACQUES DERRIDA

Neoconservatism in all its pomp conceived - in the Project for a New American Century - that, follow...
MARTIN JACQUES

When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don&...
JACQUES PEPIN

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, ...
JACQUES PEPIN

Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centr...
MARTIN JACQUES

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a gener...
JACQUES LACAN

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.
JACQUES AUDIARD

The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion t...
MARTIN JACQUES

Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the ev...
MARTIN JACQUES

When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.
JACQUES PEPIN

In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, th...
MARTIN JACQUES

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have f...
JACQUES LIPCHITZ

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature,...
JACQUES COUSTEAU

And now, the end is near,
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, I'll say it clear, JACQUES REVAUX

(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereo...
JACQUES ELLUL

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical...
JACQUES ELLUL

The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the...
MARTIN JACQUES

It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - vi...
MARTIN JACQUES

The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama w...
MARTIN JACQUES

The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judg...
JACQUES VERGES

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people w...
JACQUES LACAN

My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist...
JACQUES DELORS

I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.
BRIAN JACQUES

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.
JACQUES DERRIDA

It's the first time I've seen any of my work done like this,
BRIAN JACQUES

I suppose there's a child inside me who wants to get out, ... A little baldy child with a beard. Ha!
BRIAN JACQUES

I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning, ... Who ever thought I'd be a children's author --...
BRIAN JACQUES

Ah, 'tis a good strong yarn, about the sea, and all the legends that surround it,
BRIAN JACQUES

I use animals native to Great Britain, ... The animals have human traits, like the mole is a tiny, f...
BRIAN JACQUES

Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human, ... They know what a 'dirty rat' is.
BRIAN JACQUES

Any time I go into anything like this, I make sure, before I ever put pen to paper, that I've got th...
BRIAN JACQUES

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious ins...
JACQUES LACAN

Winning the Indy 500 in 1995 and the Formula 1 championship in 1997 are very special moments for me, and the people in NASCAR show me respect for what I've achieved so far in my career.

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Jacques Villeneuve

Winning the Indy 500 in 1995 and the Formula 1 championship in 1997 are very special moments for me, and the people in NASCAR show me respect for what I've achieved so far in my career.

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