Philippe Cousteau, Jr. Quotes
My grandfather raised me believing in the power of youth to change the world.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
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Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.
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Both parties are so entrenched in their ideologies and a desire to score political points and hold on to power that we never seem to agree on a problem, much less find solutions.
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The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power.
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I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I don't have a connect with it.
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Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about retail bookselling to start Amazon.
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My grandfather raised me believing in the power of youth to change the world.
