William Klein Quotes
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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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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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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 don't feel invincible because I'm human.
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I felt I came back rather quickly from being ill and didn't give myself the time to reflect.
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People blame the 1960s for just about everything these days, but it was the decade when all that post-war furtiveness and small-mindedness was finally blown open, and opportunity really came knocking.
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I'm always fascinated by why a person becomes a writer.
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I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as acting - both are popularity contests, and in both you're trying to tell a story through the film as a medium.
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I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.
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I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.
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Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.
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What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.
