Pierre de Coubertin Quotes
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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.
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The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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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.
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I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'It must be nice to think there is a true reality,' says Miss Callendar. 'I've always found reality a matter of great debate.'
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Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.
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Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes.
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Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.
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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.
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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.
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How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves! ... You can always - always - give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness!
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People that complete other people's vision are understated.
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Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.
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Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.
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In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.
