Claude Lelouch Quotes
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Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
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It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
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I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here's the problem in the market place, here's how we solve it, and here's how we make money.
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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
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Being in nature is very important to me. I'm not a glamour puss.
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Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.
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When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.
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Bah, the latest news, the latest news is not the last.
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The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.
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First and foremost, the duty of a representative is to represent the interests of his constituents.
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You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.
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Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.
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When I started out modelling, people kept warning me that I would only last five years.
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I did think about giving up smoking, but I decided not to, because I'm not a quitter. And I know that every cigarette I smoke takes five minutes off my life, but I also know it takes ten minutes to smoke it. That's a clear five-minute net gain, I reckon.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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I can't believe people think they need permission to drive. Or permission to do anything.
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The last film is always the most important.
