Pierre de Coubertin Quotes
May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We've sold tons of them.
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I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.
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Before every show, we pray together, and after, we talk and have fun and laugh. We make sure to keep each other sane and happy.
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I've never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.
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Everybody is so busy talking about 'Twittering' and talking about the new technologies and talking about this and that, but they don't talk about creativity.
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Red lips don't look good on blotchy, uneven skin.
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Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.
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May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.
