John Kluge Quotes
I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value
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I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.
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Looking back on my 50-year eclectic journey in research, I am grateful that it has gone as well as it has, although still not clever enough to open the black box of enzyme structure.
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I think I've heard somebody say that I was a well-dressed golfer. I guess that has something to do with the fact that a lot of people who play golf don't dress very well.
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I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.
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I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.
