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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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 think growing up in South Africa, and then moving to Canada, I'm just genuinely interested in the difference between the First World and the Third World, immigration, and how the new, globalized world is beginning to operate. All of those things run through my mind a lot.
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As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.
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Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
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I believe together, with the OAS, everybody condemned the coup d'etat, and everybody is demanding that President Zelaya should go back to the presidency, and they should call for general elections and realize an election. That's what we want. And I believe that President Obama made the right decisions condemning the coup d'etat.
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You spend your time thinking about that and you get lost in reflection.
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Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.
