Emmanuel Petit Quotes
France is hypocritical and cowardly. I sometimes think that, having been invaded by the Germans, we'd be run better today.
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The first thing I ever invested in was Twitter. Blaine Cook, former CTO, was leaving the company and asked me if I wanted to buy his stock.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
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Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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I remember bringing some of my other friends to our table, and everyone at our table would look at them and ask me, 'What are you doing? Why'd you bring him?' It was annoying high school stuff that still goes on now. My high school was really bad.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.
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The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
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He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
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I just find 'Scooby-Doo' unwatchable. I can't stand it. I like all those other Hanna-Barbera shows about a thousand times more than 'Scooby-Doo.'
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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
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There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.
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Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
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No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.
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Desire and determination must overcome disappointment.
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All of man's work is a bloody business. That fact, today, is considered foolish, affairs are finished cleverly with words alone, and jobs that require effort are avoided. I would like young men to have some understanding of this.
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You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.
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France is hypocritical and cowardly. I sometimes think that, having been invaded by the Germans, we'd be run better today.
