Francois Pinault Quotes
My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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I don't like to look typical.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
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Fondness for stories is just one of many artifacts, side effects of the way our brains work.
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A workable and effective way to meet and overcome difficulties is to take on someone else's problems. It is a strange fact but you can often handle two difficulties-your own and somebody else's-better than you can handle your own alone. That truth is based on a subtle law of self-giving or outgoingness whereby you develop a self-strengthening in the process.
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I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.
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In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet.
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My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.
