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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It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.
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'Your God doesn’t care about you at all,' Travis said.'All the more reason to care about myself and others.'
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I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.
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If you love women, and you want to sing about love, don't feel the need to say 'he.' Don't feel the need to adapt to the society or the culture.
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To do work that's not going to be fulfilling doesn't make sense.
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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
