Clive Sinclair Quotes

The idea of the split personality is as old as Genesis. For a start, Eve was manufactured from Adam's rib. Then there's Cain and Abel, twins at war. They were followed by Esau and Jacob, likewise divisible into hairy and smooth types.

Clive Sinclair

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• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Career
  • Mom
  • Moral

• It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • People
  • Truth
  • Me

• I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Book
  • Library

• How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Character
  • Hair
  • Warrior

• Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Past
  • Things

• By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Time
  • School
  • Left

• I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Noise

• I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Never

• I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Life
  • Rock

• None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Kids
  • Together

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Against

• The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Good
  • Amazing
  • Discipline

• I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Today
  • Girl
  • Gun

• 'Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Wife
  • Dog

• I don't want to be compared to Brad Pitt because I don't want to, you know, disappoint anybody. Brad Pitt is an icon.

  

  Chord Overstreet

• Mo: Thank you, Jillian, for that fascinating, uh, transsexual version of the Oedipus legend, 'Oedipal Complex.'

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Legend

• The Nondiscriminatory Transportation Screening Act provides a commonsense approach for the TSA to update its policies on permissible verifying documents.

  

  Bill Flores

• The hardest thing is for me to let the work go and let myself just live. Every actor is different; they each have their own strengths and weaknesses; trust and ease are mine.

  

  Emory Cohen
  • Work
  • Different
  • Live

• The idea of the split personality is as old as Genesis. For a start, Eve was manufactured from Adam's rib. Then there's Cain and Abel, twins at war. They were followed by Esau and Jacob, likewise divisible into hairy and smooth types.

  

  Clive Sinclair
  • War
  • Personality