Philippe Cousteau, Jr. Quotes
Phoenix is an interesting example. Drive around and see the golf courses everywhere, and you see people's big green lawns. And you live in a desert! I've always remarked about the capacity of human beings to look at somewhere and move there because of its uniqueness and its beauty and then change it.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
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I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.
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Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix.
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Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.
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Phoenix is an interesting example. Drive around and see the golf courses everywhere, and you see people's big green lawns. And you live in a desert! I've always remarked about the capacity of human beings to look at somewhere and move there because of its uniqueness and its beauty and then change it.
