William Klein Quotes
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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
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Good sports facilities are a blessing.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.
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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
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People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.
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I am not taking anything for granted.
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
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When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
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Apple makes great hardware. The reality is, in the OS, we see things differently.
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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
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In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.
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It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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If we define technology as a modification of the environment, then we must recognize the complementary principle of technique: how that modification is used in performance. New objects change behavior, but not always as inventors and manufacturers imagine. And changes in behavior of people, as of bears and dogs, inspire new hardware, which in turn engenders more innovations.
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I've goofed, and there's been something interesting, but I haven't made use of it. It just doesn't interest me.
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In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.
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The moment you stigmatize a whole group of people - for example, Muslims - then, obviously, you make the decent, law-abiding Muslims feel as if they're under threat in some way or that their legitimacy, as members or citizens of society, is brought into question.
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I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me.
