Jean-Philippe Courtois Quotes

I think, what I would communicate to people, if you are really keen in helping the world, you could spend so much quality time in terms of coaching, learning, providing great energy to the social entrepreneurs.

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• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
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• I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Morning

• It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

  

  Adam Braun
  • School
  • Business
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• I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Best

• I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • May
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• Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • People
  • You
  • Travel

• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
  • Own
  • Errors

• I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Life
  • Business
  • Running

• I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Story
  • Young

• But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

  

  Taylor Hackford
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• I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

  

  Fawn Hall
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  • Interested

• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Career

• Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Work
  • Independence

• I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Model

• I can tell women's confidence levels rise when they wear heels.

  

  Eric Mabius
  • Women
  • Confidence

• Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• If you are a woman living, you've been done wrong by a man.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Done
  • Man
  • Woman

• You're either ghetto or you're not.

  

  Vince Staples
  • You
  • Ghetto
  • Either

• I think, what I would communicate to people, if you are really keen in helping the world, you could spend so much quality time in terms of coaching, learning, providing great energy to the social entrepreneurs.

  

  Jean-Philippe Courtois
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