Jacques Chirac Quotes

On n'exporte pas la démocratie dans un fourgon blindé.

Jacques Chirac

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• Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Baby
  • Now

• Every loan that we did in the City of Detroit in the 10 years they studied - between 2005 and 2014 - were conventional FHA, VA loans with average interest rates of 6%.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • City
  • Years
  • Interest

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Cat
  • Down
  • Clever

• I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Clothes

• I care about Bahrain.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Care
  • About
  • I Care

• The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • President
  • Option
  • Big

• If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Live
  • Women
  • Reality

• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
  • Family
  • School
  • Remember

• There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.

  

  Abraham Benrubi
  • Character
  • Me
  • Always

• No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Wall

• As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Team
  • Single
  • Training

• The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • World
  • Better

• In the aftermath of a marriage, you feel helpless and hapless.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • You
  • Marriage
  • Feel

• Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Love
  • Theatre

• The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Interesting
  • Perfect
  • Single

• Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Up
  • Future
  • Change

• There is one thing I don't understand about Astral Weeks. Of all the records I have ever made that one is definitely not rock. You could throw that record at the wall, take it to music colleges, analyze it to death. Nobody is going to tell me that it is a rock album. Why they keep calling it one I have no idea.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Why
  • Death

• The whole mystery of commodities, all the magic and necromancy that surrounds the products of labor as long as they take the form of commodities, vanishes therefore, so soon as we come to other forms of production.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Long
  • Magic

• Basically, I start my morning off with a Bustelo coffee made in a mocha pot - the Bialetti. I warm some milk on the side, on my stove, and I add one teaspoon or half a teaspoon of real sugar. I have two of these every morning. Even when I was pregnant.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Real
  • Morning
  • Coffee

• Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.

  

  Kenneth Bruce Gorelick
  • People
  • Great
  • Hope

• At its best, what art does is, it points to who we as human beings and what we as human beings value. And if Black Lives Matter, they deserve to be in paintings.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Art
  • Black
  • Value

• Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.

  

  Anne Enright
  • People
  • Nice

• I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react. I'm not saying you need to throw your club. I mean, take 10 seconds to get angry at yourself, but then start over.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Bad

• On n'exporte pas la démocratie dans un fourgon blindé.

  

  Jacques Chirac