Luc de Clapiers Quotes
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Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
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There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.
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When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.
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We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.
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I don't think fashion is evil.
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I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.
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I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
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Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.
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I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
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I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.
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I'm a big journaler, so for every new journal, I would change the way my room looked and change the posters on the walls, and I would change what I was wearing, and I would have a playlist, and it all kind of corresponded and matched, and I would change my handwriting in the journals.
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Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost.
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I'm the kind of person who always wants more.
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I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.
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I love, love, love Michael Jackson.
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Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
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I confess to getting quickly bored by one style of expression, and I like to experiment with all different sorts of modes. I rebel against familiar tools.
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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
