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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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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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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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.
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Chicago has definitely played a part in my character development. I love the essence of the city, the personalities of the people, the hard-working spirit that you need to get through the winters. And every neighborhood has its great restaurants and the local hot-dog stand.
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I'm like a gypsy. I've got a place in Beijing, a place in New York, a place in west Africa; I'm working on a place in Colombia. I like the fact that painting is portable - and I've wanted my entire life to be able to see the world, to respond to it, and make that my life's work.
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I loved living in London, and I didn't want to leave.
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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.
