Jean-Francois Cope Quotes
There is no winner or loser - just one family, the U.M.P. The time for internal squabbles is behind us.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Just because I don't look like everybody else doesn't mean that I can't be just as beautiful.
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Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.
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God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.
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Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.
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There is no winner or loser - just one family, the U.M.P. The time for internal squabbles is behind us.
