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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Western man is schizophrenic.
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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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I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.
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My father came here from Mexico.
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One of the sweet and expectable aspects of life afloat is the perpetual present moment one lives in and a perception that time is nothing more than the current, an eternal flowing back to the sea.
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There's always great things that champions do. It can be inside fighting, this person uses his range well, this person has a great right hand - anytime you fight a champion, there's multiple things that they do well, and you have to try to take those strengths away.
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I frankly think we in the financial service world believe we need appropriate kinds of regulations. No question about that. But when something like Dodd-Frank has been created, sort of in the mystery of night, it is a huge document. It's vast. It weighs about 10 pounds when I carry it around.
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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
