Luc de Clapiers Quotes
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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Freediving is by far and away the toughest sport mentally. You are underwater for up to seven minutes, and a lot of thoughts go through your brain, and you need to be completely calm and relaxed. In any other sport, you use increased adrenalin, but in freediving, you have to drop the heart rate down to 20 beats per minute.
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I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
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Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.
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We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
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In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded.
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Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
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Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
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Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.
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Siempre busco alguna luz y siempre en la noche y no alumbrado por ninguna luz.
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You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
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We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up.
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Jingoistic rhetoric and puerile self-congratulatory nationalism.
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Defensively, I could be a lot better; my decision-making at times can be a bit poor.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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There's often a good, honest case to be made that a century-old company has not only a knack for growing and managing a P&L, but also, perhaps, a heart and soul.
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We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
