"When I was six, all I dreamt about was becoming a diver on Jacques Cousteau's boat, the famous Calypso."

-- Enric Sala

#Jacques Cousteau Quotes #Calypso Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.”

Source : Willy Brandt (1971). “Peace: Writings and Speeches of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1971”
“These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.”

Source : "Interviewing Lou Reed: Not a perfect day" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2003.
“As we begin to face up to the holiness of God, our lives resound with that very same anthem, here and now upon the earth.”
“In appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time, with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, equity and sentiment must be discarded and a man of ability chosen in the interests of the country. In the light of these considerations, we find Hiroshi Saito, present Minister of Holland, the right person for the post.”

Source : "Up Saito!". "TIME" Magazine, December 25, 1933.
“It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.”
“Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't making enough of an effort to reconcile the contradictions of life. All you get is sweet monotonous flow. Writer's block is nothing to commit suicide over. It simply indicates some imbalance between your experience and your art, and I think that's constructive.”
“I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.”
“I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.”

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