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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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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As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself.
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I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so early. And maybe they can achieve it, too, just to get that in their minds.
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.
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The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.
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In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music]. I started getting into Jim Jarmusch and knew that my uncle was a friend of his. I pieced together parts of his life in high school and college, which lead me to his story in a funny way.
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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.
