Claire Forlani Quotes
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
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The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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The last three films I've done are about self-immolation.
