Luc de Clapiers Quotes

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

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• IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Winning
  • Exercise

• If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • Look

• The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Money
  • Nobody

• Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Different
  • Character
  • Fun

• I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Women
  • Me
  • Wish

• What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Feeling
  • Never
  • Returning

• You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

  

  Sally Field
  • Present
  • Lose
  • Behavior

• If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Respect
  • Court
  • Tried

• Fear warps our understanding of reality and even our ability to see reality clearly.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Reality
  • Fear
  • Understanding

• We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Feet

• I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Team

• I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my parents would not have trusted investing in a straight-up comedy career.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Up
  • World
  • Career

• I'm pretty sure the last time any anchor could honestly ignore ratings was well before I was born.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Ignore

• Just because you're passionately interested in something doesn't mean it has to be your career. You might have to look for more than one passion. Some passions may afford a career and some may not.

  

  Larry Smith
  • May
  • Career
  • Passion

• I was at a photo shoot, and I was wearing a cross necklace that my mom bought me, and somebody made a joke like, 'Why are you wearing a cross? Like you would be religious.' And then they took it away. I was really affected by that. The whole thing made me realize that I do want a cross with me at all times.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Why
  • Want
  • Me

• I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Want
  • Spiritual
  • Leader

• My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • World
  • Dad

• I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It's only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they're just economic figures.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Believe
  • Growth
  • Meaningful

• I didn't want to go to college, and my parents said, 'Well, then you'd better get a job, because we're not paying for you to drop out of school.' So I delivered pizza near USC for a while. We had to wear khakis and a baseball hat with the logo on it, and I worked almost every day.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • School
  • Job
  • Parents

• My interpretation of the word 'ugly'... I like ugly beauty. That can happen. In France, we have phrase 'jolie laide.' We like certain women who are not pretty or cute - it's the opposite in France of pretty. It's more strange and interesting.

  

  Francois Nars
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Interesting

• Yes was without a singer at that point, cause they were doing ABWH, so you had ABWH, and then you had the 90125 band without a singer.

  

  William Wyman Sherwood Asia
  • Band
  • Causes
  • Singers

• I'm measuring my actions against that inner voice that for me at least is audible, is active, it tells me where I think I'm on track and where I think I'm off track.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Voice
  • Track

• Even one death is horrible.

  

  Brad Thor
  • Death

• Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

  

  Luc de Clapiers