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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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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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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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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I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be for antibiotics, since half of the useful ones target the ribosomes, but I didn't believe I could contribute to it. It was like the next Mount Everest to conquer. It was my dream to contribute something to humanity.
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What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
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My dad has actually really influenced me musically. I have a weird love for '80s and '90s music. A lot of people are like, 'Are you serious? It's so lame.' But my dad always plays that in the car whenever we're together.
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.
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My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.
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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
