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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You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
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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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Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.
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Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.
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The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
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And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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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.
