Jacques Parizeau Quotes
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My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to change it. Shortly thereafter she came up to me and told me I had to keep it, because her numerologist said it was very, very good.
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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
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The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. So they fall upon these groups, rather than try to reform their own practices by drawing on India's sophisticated philosophical traditions.
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My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.
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I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
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Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
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During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.
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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
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Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's things that you accept.
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What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.
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It's hard for me to take care of myself, let's put it that way. I am my last priority.
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What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
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I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.
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What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.
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We want to build the club on our attendances. We don't want to pay all our TV money straight out in transfer fees and wages. We have to invest in developing Villa Park, allowing us to generate our own revenue streams.
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Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
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One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.
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If our minds were originally formed by nature in a sound and useful manner, then they pass on all the forces of fate, which imposes on us from outside in a relatively unobjectionable and more acceptable way.
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First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.
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I believe if you can have an open dialogue about anything, whether it's a book or a movie or TV show, it's this door that suddenly opens your mind to new ideas.
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The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
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You know, what if everybody's wrong in life? And so you have to live your life yourself.
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Don't be afraid of your dreams.
