Bertrand Piccard Quotes
When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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There is always pressure in football.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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I don't really yell at people.
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What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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Mark my words, Michael Van Gerwen will knock Phil Taylor off his perch one day and be the best darts player on the planet.
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Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life.
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I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.
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1977 is the year I made my first movie. Shortly after, I was offered quite nice roles in television. The general consensus among everyone was that I'd be out of my mind to do that.
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It was my father who - after, at age 15, I had attempted unsuccessfully to drive the family car using a 'borrowed' key and knocked down a wall of the garage - convinced me over the telephone not to run away from home and who then came home from work not to punish me but rather to console and comfort me.
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When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.
