Billy Tauzin Quotes
New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
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When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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Funny how the new things are the old things.
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My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.
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If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.'
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I examine other people's characteristics, so when I'm playing characters, I don't always have to make them me; I can transform into others.
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This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.
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New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.
