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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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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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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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
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I want really badly to just be funny in a movie but be close to myself.
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One of the downsides of being a poker pro is that people see exactly how you play.
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When there are good postings available, the people who choose who is to come to that particular position, they will always have, at the back of their minds, a fear that, 'If I take a woman, she might prioritize her family over the job and, therefore, not be available at times when her presence is required.'
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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I'm studying art and photography, like film and digital - a mix of both.
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You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
