Philippe Cousteau, Jr. Quotes
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
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What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
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The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.
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I'm always very proud when people ask me about being a Canadian.
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My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.
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I always say to people that I left hip-hop in '97, meaning that I departed from listening to predominately hip-hop and just started really getting into records from the late '60s, early '70s. And once I made that change, I realized how much great music was made back in the day, and it started to become apparent how much we've lost in music.
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It's insane going from skiing to cycling. Even though you are in prime shape, you feel like you have never worked out a day in your life.
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Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.
