Dominique de Villepin Quotes
It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
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'Star Wars' was, I mean, it was the first time I remember seeing three movies that all kind of went together. It was just an amazing final understanding of what a trilogy was.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.
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We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.
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There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.
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There's no reason that there has to be a fringe network that illuminates an urban or a multiethnic experience.
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I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
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I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?'
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Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it.
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May Allah guide us to the good of the kingdom of Bahrain and its loyal people.
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I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
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When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration.
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It's the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it's clear the world wants to put them together and everyone wants to see them together, but also when you're telling these stories you can't throw these people together immediately.
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I reread? I lied! I don't dare to reread. I cannot reread. What's the point, for me, in rereading?
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George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.
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James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.
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Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.
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Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended period of time.
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It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.
