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 look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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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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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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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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It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die.
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I could have anything I wanted and if I didn't have it, it was because I didn't want it.
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Its [Dreams from My Father] also a reflection about how we might start a better conversation in our democracy about how to solve problems, because it feels as if our political system - it just seems there is so much cynicism and negativity in our politics.
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You've just got to play complementary football; you've just got to wait your time.
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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.
