Dominique de Villepin Quotes

Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.

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• And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Live
  • Dream

• I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Pirate
  • Especially
  • Mermaids

• A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Person

• When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • City
  • Responsibility

• All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Road
  • Courage
  • inspirational

• I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Why
  • History
  • Freedom

• I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'

  

  Sally Jewell
  • You
  • Responsibility
  • Environment

• I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Work
  • America
  • Myself

• A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Experience
  • Joy

• I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Life
  • Great
  • Character

• I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Responsibility
  • Moments
  • Happiness

• For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Road
  • Touring

• The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Internet
  • Curse
  • Teenagers

• I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Remember
  • Reading
  • Responsibility

• When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Road

• Andrew Carnegie loved libraries; he knew their importance to an educated society and as anchors to our communities. And so, just as some loyal baseball fans travel to attend games at all 30 major league stadiums, over the last decade or so, I have slowly, casually, visited Carnegie libraries whenever I am on the road.

  

  Sam Weller
  • Society
  • Road
  • Travel

• Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that's a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It's a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.

  

  Pete Hegseth
  • Country
  • Home
  • Lost

• Yeah I'm chillin' on a dirt road, laid back swervin' like I'm George Jones.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Like
  • Road
  • Chilling

• Democracy maintains that government is established for the benefit of the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the rights of the individual and his freedom in the exercise of his abilities. Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Government
  • Responsibility
  • Democracy

• I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • Angry
  • Lose
  • Temper

• Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Why
  • Truth

• Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.

  

  Dominique de Villepin
  • Responsibility
  • Road