Philippe Cousteau, Jr. Quotes
We've explored very little of the ocean. We really don't know what's out there. But people think we've figured it all out.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.
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If you look at my bookings, they've gone down each season. That's something I'm trying to keep improving. On the pitch you don't want any silly bookings.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.
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There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.
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We've explored very little of the ocean. We really don't know what's out there. But people think we've figured it all out.
