Charles Michel Quotes
Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideology.
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Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans.
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A luminous body when obscured by a dense atmosphere will appear smaller; as may be seen by the moon or sun veiled by fogs.
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It's important that the drivers stay together, because in difficult moments we have each other. If we are not together the financial and political interests of the organisers and constructors come to the fore.
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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
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I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.
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So I have this word for much of what I do in life: 'plorking.' I'm not playing and I'm not working, I'm plorking.
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I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car.
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I consider myself a novice film actor.
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I think pot should be legalized, but I think the promotion of party culture is irresponsible.
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A good antidote to nostalgia is to go home, and then you remember why you left.
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I'd just like to say that I have a personal disgust for small dogs, like poodles. I have some serious physical problems with them. Everything about them means I must kill them. I must.
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When I was teaching at an institution that bent over backward for foreign students, I was asked in class one day: "What is your policy toward foreign students?" My reply was: "To me, all students are the same. I treat them all the same and hold them all to the same standards." The next semester there was an organized boycott of my classes by foreign students. When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.
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Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideology.
