Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
Beck
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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
P. J. O'Rourke
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When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning to get it done. I can only write for a few hours at a time; after that, my attention fades.
Patrick Modiano
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
M. Ward
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We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.
Malcolm Wallop
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What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?
Nancy Grace
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To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing – they're all just language.
Nate Lowman
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I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it's a quiet town.
Adam Derek Scott
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All fundamentalist movements… whether they're Jewish, Christian or Muslim or Buddhist, all begin as an intra-religious debate, an intra-religious struggle. Then, at a later stage, fundamentalists sometimes reach out towards a foreign foe and hence the Muslim feeling that American foreign policy … is holding them back.
Karen Armstrong
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As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
Orson Scott Card
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Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.
Harriet Harman
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Evenings of paying to be rejected can feel like a male version of date rape.
Warren Farrell
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The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
Camilo Jose Cela
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
Ed Weeks
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Let me tell you about the nap. It's absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man. And he said - I was maybe nine - he said, 'Philip, whenever you take a nap, take your clothes off and put a blanket over you, and you're going to sleep better.' Well, as with everything, he was right.
Philip Roth
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We end up producing the opposite of what we intended, and turn our children into unpopular, isolated adults.
Linda Blair
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
