Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.
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It's time to "stop being ambivalent." ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of innocent people.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.
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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
