Luc de Clapiers Quotes
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.
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When I tell people that I am acting in Telugu, they ask me if I have to overact.
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I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
