Christophe de Margerie Quotes

People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas.

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• My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Family
  • Remember

• I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Country
  • Childhood
  • Been

• Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Rest
  • Enjoy
  • Ignore

• I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Road
  • See
  • Cultures

• I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Years
  • Old
  • Barber

• I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Write
  • Interest
  • Watch

• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Man

• I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Me
  • King
  • Lion

• Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Men
  • Shows
  • Rural

• I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Spiritual

• What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • God
  • Done
  • Me

• I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

  

  Pam Gems
  • War
  • Philosophy
  • Personage

• Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Gracious

• All our wives are experimental psychologists.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Our
  • Wives
  • Experimental

• I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Olympic
  • Medallist

• By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Time
  • Boy
  • Everyone

• Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I think in any profession, in general, you always imagine yourself at the top of it. And I'm not trying to say I'm at the top of my profession, but I've seen what the top people do and what the top people live like. And that's definitely something I want to be a part of.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Live
  • Trying

• My real name is Keneti James Fitzgerald, but K.J. stands for Keneti James, which is a Samoan name.

  

  KJ Apa
  • Real

• Anyone who knows music knows that Neil is about as real as it can get, and this along with seeing him perform 'Harvest Moon' on 'SNL' was my first experience knowing what real music really felt like.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Music
  • Real
  • Experience

• Art is not about something, Art is something

  

  Sarah Bernhardt
  • Art

• As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Always

• People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas.

  

  Christophe de Margerie
  • People