Jean-Claude Duvalier Quotes
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
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I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
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In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.
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Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.
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I was a dyslexic kid.
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We can only shape a bright future if we are aware of Germany's enduring responsibility for the ultimate betrayal of all civilised values that was the Shoah.
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For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
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You know, I think British comedy is very smart comedy. You don't get too much dumb comedy over here. Or at least I haven't seen it. If I'm wrong about that, I apologize to all the dumb comedy makers over here.
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Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go.
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I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.
