Pierre de Coubertin Quotes

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

Pierre de Coubertin

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• What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Done
  • Fun

• The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • President
  • Option
  • Big

• It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• I like doing my own stunts.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Like
  • Doing
  • My Own

• A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

  

  A. P. Martinich
  • Good
  • Philosophy
  • Grammar

• I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Bible

• I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Vegan

• Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Person
  • Talent
  • Genius

• When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Home
  • Childhood
  • Find

• I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British 'Elle.' It was April 14, 1986.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Fashion
  • Charity
  • April

• If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Great
  • True
  • Doing

• It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Look

• 'It must be nice to think there is a true reality,' says Miss Callendar. 'I've always found reality a matter of great debate.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Great
  • True
  • Reality

• Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Period

• Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Live
  • Training

• Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Future

• I've tried to be inclusive in my '2B' series. Over the course of three books, I wrote African-American characters, a paraplegic character, gay and lesbian characters, a bisexual, Jewish heroine, a multiracial hero, Korean and Chinese-American characters, and a multiracial supporting character.

  

  Ann Aguirre
  • Character
  • American
  • Gay

• One thing for me that modeling definitely did was that you go to do a different job every day, and you are working with a completely new team of people. You have to learn how to talk to people and how to creatively achieve the same goals. I think it just hones your people skills.

  

  Cat Deeley
  • People
  • Different
  • Goal

• I understand that artists and critics make a big deal over the Grammys. But when I go to my shows and I'm selling out arenas in London, and when I'm in Australia and Japan, there aren't any Grammys there. There are human beings who I've touched. There are human beings who are inspired by me, who I love dearly. And that's what my career is based on.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Career
  • Artist
  • Inspired

• The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Movie
  • Waiting

• The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Principles

• In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

  

  Pierre de Coubertin