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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I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
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I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.
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I think I've read all of W.E.B. Du Bois, which is a lot. He started off with comprehensive field work in Philadelphia, publishing a book in 1899 called 'The Philadelphia Negro'. It was this wonderful combination of clear statistical data and ethnographic data.
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Nothing will stifle your human evolution more than fame and fortune.
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As I matured, I became a smarter person, a more sensitive person, a more thinking person.
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Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.
