William Klein Quotes
Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.
William Klein
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
Ramez Naam
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When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.
Rachel Keller
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright
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There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.
Sam Brownback
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
Victor Hugo
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
Ma Jian
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
Dale Murphy
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Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
Karen Salmansohn
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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
Zaha Hadid
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Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
M. J. Hyland
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I never set my sights low. I've always believed most people are ruined by the limitations they put on themselves. I was never afraid to take that step, to see what I was capable of doing. Does luck play a role in success, particularly in a creative field? Sure it does. But if you don't have the balls to give it a shot, you're destined to fail.
Ace Frehley
Kiss
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What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.
N. T. Wright
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Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know oneself wretched; but it is being great to know that one is wretched.
Blaise Pascal
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I like cartoons. I like 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.' It's funny! It has things that kids wouldn't get. It's like, if you're mature, you get it. I like that and 'The Fairly OddParents.'
David Archuleta
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My Eighth District, like others, counts on these family businesses and their teams working hard to support their families and aid their communities. As retailers, these teams often bring different or unique products to the marketplace.
Melissa Bean
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Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.
William Klein
