Pierre de Coubertin Quotes
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I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.
Lake Bell
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Edmond de Goncourt
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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.
Sam Ewing
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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.
Naomi Campbell
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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.
Sam Altman
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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.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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One quality that a director needs to acquire in Hollywood is to understand the system and figure out how to work within the system to express one's own ideas.
Kim Jee-woon
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Having a diverse suite of U.S.-manned spaceflight systems to access space is inherently robust.
Alan Stern
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Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet there was no bad feeling, no malice, no rancour, no littleness in his countenance, beautiful with a man's best beauty, even in its depression. When I placed his chair at the table, which I hastened to do, anticipating the servant, and when I handed him his tea, which I did with trembling care, he said: "Thank you, Lucy," in as kindly a tone of his full pleasant voice as ever my ear welcomed.
Charlotte Bronte
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I always worry I've probably written one too many Bernie Gunther books and that I should probably give him his gold watch.
Philip Kerr
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In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.
Pierre de Coubertin
