Jean-Philippe Courtois Quotes

R&D has been an obsession in Europe for many, many years. There is this magical number which many governments aspire to do, and that is to invest at least three percent of GDP in research and development. When you look at the number, it's a composite of private and public investment in R&D.

Jean-Philippe Courtois

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• Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • People
  • Country
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• To be rude to someone is not my nature.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Nature
  • Someone
  • Rude

• I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
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• Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

  

  Omar Epps
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• The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
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• I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
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• Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.

  

  Ed Miliband
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• My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Important
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• For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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  • Fun
  • Electricity

• 'Argo' was a great script from day one. I don't think we knew that it was going to be such a success.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Great
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  • Day

• I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

  

  Abbie Cornish
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• People have this impression that I'm a little kooky, but I'm actually very OCD. I love order and organization. I'm a big list maker. But if I cross off too many tasks, and it's hard to see the remaining ones, I have to start a new list. Now that's OCD.

  

  Kate Spade
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• I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.

  

  Caleb Carr
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• I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.'

  

  Yusuf Hamied
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• Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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• The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation. … Both are illusions.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• The second handers offer substitutes for competence such as love, charm, kindness - easy substitutes - and there is no substitute for creation.

  

  Ayn Rand
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• I entirely differ with the Government as to the value of precedents. In this case, as in others, precedents are not mere dusty phrases, which do not substantially affect the question before us. A precedent embalms a principle.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
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• Pay attention. As a summation of all that I have had to say as a writer, I would settle for that. And as a talisman or motto for that journey in search of a homeland, which is what faith is, I would settle for that too.

  

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• I have this weird musical thing I do: I play violin, and I even went on tour with Tim Robbins. We did a bunch of Canadian cities, and then went down to the States, and then we ended up in Japan.

  

  David Alpay
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• I think Salesforce, going public very early on before they were profitable, it made a lot of sense for them because it got customers comfortable that these guys were going to have capital and be transparent about their business.

  

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• I am comfortable with myself, and this is how I am. I am not really interested in having an acrimonious fight with somebody.

  

  Joy Behar
  • Fight
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• R&D has been an obsession in Europe for many, many years. There is this magical number which many governments aspire to do, and that is to invest at least three percent of GDP in research and development. When you look at the number, it's a composite of private and public investment in R&D.

  

  Jean-Philippe Courtois