Jean-Philippe Courtois Quotes

I think, what I would communicate to people, if you are really keen in helping the world, you could spend so much quality time in terms of coaching, learning, providing great energy to the social entrepreneurs.

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• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Morning

• It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

  

  Adam Braun
  • School
  • Business
  • Education

• I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Best

• I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • May
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• Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • People
  • You
  • Travel

• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
  • Own
  • Errors

• I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Life
  • Business
  • Running

• I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Story
  • Young

• But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • You
  • Page

• I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Myself
  • Interested

• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Career

• When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Thought
  • Younger
  • Retiring

• You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Political
  • Comedy
  • Fly

• I'm much more indecisive and a people-pleaser than someone who's willing to step into the firing line.

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • People

• When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Life
  • Time
  • Man

• When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Work
  • Space
  • Looking

• George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • History

• I think, what I would communicate to people, if you are really keen in helping the world, you could spend so much quality time in terms of coaching, learning, providing great energy to the social entrepreneurs.

  

  Jean-Philippe Courtois
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