Dominique de Villepin Quotes
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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
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When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.
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I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith.
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Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.
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I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!
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If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?
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Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.
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The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.
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The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelievably disgusting. And the star-nosed mole is also. It looks like it snorted a firecracker. They live way underground, and to get footage of them is basically impossible.
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I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.
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I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a good thing I learned at an early age to keep on trying. Stick to it, and eventually you'll get there.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.
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Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.
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I'm not in search of records like some other players. If I can score between 15 and 20 goals each season, I will be very happy.
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I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.
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In '24,' you spend so much time with your faces really close, eye contact with such intensity.
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If you can look up, you can get up.
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Using the right of veto would be shooting the Americans in the back.
