Laurent Jalabert Quotes
I'm very aware that to reach the same level and have the same amount of success will be extremely difficult.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
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We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.
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An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.
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Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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Stay calm and aggressive.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.
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If you calculate the price of everything in this world, you will miss out on the real important things.5
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I'm playing with Bonnie Raitt. I don't have to sing it. I just have to play it. That's cool.
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We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when we engage in hearty conversations with those who are different from us, not necessarily to change our opinions, but to build the empathy muscle.
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Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.
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I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
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I'm very aware that to reach the same level and have the same amount of success will be extremely difficult.
