William Klein Quotes
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.
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You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.
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The nature of things is dharma.
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I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders.
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A lot of the vibe in London is being sucked dry because of the economic situation. It's very expensive, and it gives you nothing back. New York still feels like there's stuff going on. People are struggling to create art. There's still a vibe.
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No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job....Poetry..remains one person talking to another....no poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is the master of the prosaic.
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Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.
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The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.
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Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.
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So, Hitchcock wouldn't say anything about my work in the movie but, on the other hand, he wouldn't complain, either.
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Oprah didn't want to put me on the show for a really long time because she thought I was more for the men than for the women.
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I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was constantly being described as something I didn't really feel like I identified with.
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Well, when you're recording an album, artists have what they feel like is good music, and the label, they're trying to sell the album. So those two ideas clash sometimes, but in the end it always works out. When you put the two together, that's a good thing.
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Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.
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Maybe this is just horrible bad, but I think I've had enough successes to where the journey is more important to me now. There's no guarantee, no matter what. We get one run in life.
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I have worked since I was 12 years old and started providing for my family in Holland by the age of 17 - and I still do today.
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I don't feel invincible because I'm human.
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We never had intentions to become a political band but like it or not we have been placed on a unique political platform in the past months. We feel it would be irresponsible not to make something positive come out of that.
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I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never been before. Once you discover something beautiful, you just want to keep coming back.
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I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.
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What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.
