Joseph Roux Quotes
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.
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Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always working, so we never really had time for that. I think I kind of learned to accept it.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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I remember being described often as 'the horrifically ugly Jack McCall,' and I kept thinking it took me about 10 seconds to get like that.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
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Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
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The Disney deal for us, we are very excited to be their Pay 1 partner, where we are a big licensing partner of Disney all over the world in all different windows.
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Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.
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I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
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fantasizing is one of the earliest languages in the child's mind. We are in touch with our imagination and dreams before we engage with logic and reason.
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It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
