Jean-Philippe Courtois Quotes
While globalization will make the world smaller and more accessible, we must continue to appreciate its vibrant diversity.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless … someone's got to make a wake up call.
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The purpose creates the machine.
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God made the integers, man made the rest.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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While globalization will make the world smaller and more accessible, we must continue to appreciate its vibrant diversity.
