Claire Denis Quotes
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My worst expectations never happened.
Barbara Bush -
I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
Jackee Harry -
I would much rather be on the couch all the time. But it turns out, I'm also agreeable. I'll agree to do a lot of things.
Cam -
I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
Patrick Ness -
It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
Abraham Lincoln -
Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.
T. B. Joshua
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
L. Neil Smith -
It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.
Kate Millett -
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Abraham Maslow -
I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it.
Ted McGinley -
I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.
Jack Valenti
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I'm drawn to bad romances.
Lady Gaga -
My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.
Eddie Marsan -
There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.
Immanuel Kant -
God wills, man dreams, the work is born.
Fernando Pessoa -
Fifty years from now, if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books, we shall not exist.
Jacob Bronowski -
We're the Osbournes, and I love it.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus -
Every sinew in my body came together in one perfect whole. But those who have ever experienced that feeling, and it doesn't happen very often, will tell you it's in a whole other place of experience from the usual ego or vanity that drives my game. So I'm not afraid to own it for what it was.
Cooper Cronk -
Steve Jobs was a pretty complicated character and somewhat a psychologically complicated guy.
Ashton Kutcher -
I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.
Jim Crace -
Panic is a natural human response to danger, but it's one that severely compounds the risk.
David Ignatius -
Sometimes I feel like John Wayne.
Claire Denis