Billy Tauzin Quotes
Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.

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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
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The designer of my Emmy gown is donating my gown to the charity for an auction.
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For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.
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The EarthEcho World Water Monitoring Challenge is an opportunity for anyone, anywhere to make the first step in taking action for clean water and healthy waterways worldwide.
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There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.