Luc de Clapiers Quotes
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.
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My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I'd be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.
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Women are complicated. We all know that.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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For a long time, it was believed that war was waged by armies which could not be identified with the nation itself. Professional soldiers took upon themselves the job of defending national interests, and it was understood that the war affected only them; the country itself went on living and working.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Bullies always have another target.
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Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
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Sadness is weak; I don't believe in weakness.
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I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy - which I characterize as survival of the fittest, richest and whitest - is too callous for most Americans.
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There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
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The more you observe nature, the more you perceive that there is tremendous organization in all things. It is an intelligence so great that just by observing natural phenomena I come to the conclusion that a Creator exists.
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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
