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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Unlike the Japanese internment, water-boarding was ordered and served up in secret. But it, too, was America's policy, not just Dick Cheney's. Congress was informed about what was happening and raised no objection. The public knew, too.
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I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.
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I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.
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Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, aren't they?
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I think I am obsessed with Lucie Rie. I love the way she collaborated with Miyake, who for me is probably the most important fashion designer of the 20th century.
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I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.
