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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With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!
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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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Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
