Jean-Benoît Dunckel Quotes
It's good to get stage fright. It is necessary to be scared, otherwise you have too much confidence in yourself and you start to get pretentious and do shitty things. It's good to not be so confident in yourself.
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.
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There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don't like hair changes unless there's a reason for it. Clothing - I don't like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour - you can wear it again a few weeks later.
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
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In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.
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Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.
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I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old.
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See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
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Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events.
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I am a predatory striker, ... That is why people say they would have liked to see us playing together. He does what he does outside the box and I would be inside waiting to get bits and that would have been good to see.
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The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. ... The artist is obliged to keep his laughter and tears to himself. If they want to emerge, in spite of himself, then he must hide them or unleash them in someone else.
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You need to face what you're running from
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Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.
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It's good to get stage fright. It is necessary to be scared, otherwise you have too much confidence in yourself and you start to get pretentious and do shitty things. It's good to not be so confident in yourself.
