Pierre de Coubertin Quotes
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear.
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I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.
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Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.
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The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.
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If there's too much of you around, people can get tired of you.
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A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.
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I've travelled a huge amount, but almost all of it has been through work. I spent five years stationed in London in the special services of the American Air Force, producing and directing shows for the troops, which I absolutely loved.
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It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
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James Dean has never been one of my guys. I don't want to be him. I will take boring anytime. I love boring! Are you kidding me? Matt Damon has been one of my favorites forever. He always elevates every bit of material, and then you don't hear a thing about him.
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You have twenty-one days to shoot a whole movie and sometimes you go into that thinking 'ugh, this could potentially be really, really difficult' and it turns out to be the most incredible experience.
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Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things.
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A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.
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The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
