Clemence Poesy Quotes
Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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We show our faces to demand human rights for everyone, everywhere.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.
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Sports saved my life.
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My campaign to become leader of the ANC was pivoted on two things: Renewing the ANC and taking back to the values the were espoused and subscribed to by Nelson Mandela, Oliver Thambo, and many other leaders.
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I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.
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Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.
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I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to what the characters can offer and what I can bring to them and then bring a being to life.
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Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.
