Alain Ducasse Quotes
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.
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I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.
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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
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I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
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I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, very singular - you put your ear-buds in and you listen to it - Guitar Hero turned it around and made it very social. So it is fun to play. It's fun to play against people.
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I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
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The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
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Here again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to bring out the one great point. The cause of human sectarianism is not lack of sympathy in thought, but in speech; and this it is our not unambitious design to remedy.
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I urge President Trump to maintain American participation in the Paris Agreement - for the sake of our international leadership, economic competitiveness, and children's environmental future.
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When people used to ask me what I missed about America, I would say, 'The optimism.' I grew up in the land of hope, then moved to one whose catchphrases are 'It's not possible' and 'Hell is other people.' I walked around Paris feeling conspicuously chipper.
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I just like the insides of things and finding ways into microscopic worlds. There's also an element of control, taking things apart and putting them back together. It's a very tedious task. You can be alone and create a world for yourself.
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Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.
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When I'm in Paris, my favorite market is the Marche Raspail on the Left Bank.
