Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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I've done hundreds of interviews on guns. I'm against people who use guns. I don't like guns, but I've never yelled at anyone.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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There's always a need at a critical time for poetry.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
