Georges Clemenceau Quotes
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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Yeah, I'm a spiritual person.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.
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The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.
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visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature
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Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcomed.
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The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. ... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute.
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I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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Calico Pie,The little Birds flyDown to the calico tree,Their wings were blue,And they sang 'Tilly-loo!'Till away they flew,-And they never came back to me!
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I have this exercise where I force myself to look out from the flower's point of view at these great walloping humans coming down the path, and try, just try and feel it from their point of view because it's a different world to them, a fascinating hard one.
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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
