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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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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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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Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1979).
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To many of us it seems that there is precious little difference between the policies of the Communist Party and the policies of the Labour Party.
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The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.
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The first audition I did was for 'Trapper John, M.D.' I was surprised to get the part, and then to have it last for seven years was a bonus.
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It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.
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The Notorious B.I.G.'s album 'Ready to Die' is an incredible chart of a man's life - it begins with his birth, you hear his mother giving birth, and it goes through the decades.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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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.
