Luc de Clapiers Quotes
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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I was inspired to become an actor from theater I'd seen, so I assumed I'd do a lot of theater. But when I left Guidhall, the first thing I did was a short film - I played the main character. And I loved it. I love working on camera. I love the smallness of it and the detail and the routine of it.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.
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A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
