Jeanne Calment Quotes
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
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I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
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Once you achieve a level of success... you learn, something tells you, 'Man this ain't even for you.' You got to share with the people. You got to inspire the people.
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Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.
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The timing for directing is usually because it takes that long to develop a piece and then do pre-production and then post-production. It takes at least a couple of years. I prefer directing to doing other things. Directing and writing seem to be infinitely more creative
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I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations.
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I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
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I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.
