Christine Lagarde Quotes
As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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In society at large, nerds are law-abiding, caring, fundamentally good folk who keep the wheels of civilization grinding.
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Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.
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I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.
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Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality, a natural flow. The separate stanzas aid in perpetuating a kind of incremental reading, one small chunk at a time.
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Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.
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As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.
