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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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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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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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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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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I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
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I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.
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I always take things step by step and match by match.
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Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.
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Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.
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We may not be able to defeat these swine, but we don't have to join them.
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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.
