Jacques Chirac Quotes
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.
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I don't own cable, but my TV came with a Netflix button.
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
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Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather. To be supported by the charity of friends, or a government-pension, - provided you continue to breathe, - by whatever fine synonymes you describe these relations, is to go into the almshouse.
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I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.
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In my martial arts days. I was taught a lot of discipline that probably rolls over into other parts of my life. You're not supposed to attack back until you're attacked. You never take your skills and abuse them. I knew I could be lethal to someone my size.
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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I deliberately never read about films before I see them.
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The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
