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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I often get too emotionally involved in my cases.
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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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Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life.
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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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There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.
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A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.
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I think Pussy Riot is amazing. I'm honored that they were inspired by riot grrl, and obviously they're making history around the world.
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A masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.
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Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?
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What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.
