Abbe Pierre Quotes
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
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I'm a couch potato. I love to stay in and just watch a DVD with the missus. Or we all go over to Louis's house and watch 'X Factor.'
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
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I try to pack light with a folding leather suit bag. Anything more than five days, I need to check in my luggage. What takes the most space? Chef jackets, aprons and tools.
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Giving back is always something I'm doing - I'm honored for this, to always give back to the community.
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I'm expressing the feelings of mankind today through the Blue Dog. The dog is always having problems of the heart, of growing up, the problems of life. The dog looks at us and asks, 'Why am I here? What am I doing? Where am I going?' Those are the same questions we ask ourselves. People look at the paintings, and the paintings speak back to them.
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Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
