Jacques Chirac Quotes

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

Jacques Chirac

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• There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • House
  • Kind
  • Crazy

• I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Men
  • Singing
  • Gold

• It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • You
  • Audience
  • Books

• Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Why
  • Poetry
  • Away

• I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Moral
  • My Life

• I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • You
  • Way
  • Same

• A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Music
  • Game

• I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Cooking
  • Limit

• If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • You
  • Against
  • Award

• Love stories should be relatable.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Should

• Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Love
  • Relationship

• Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • You
  • Serious

• I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Possible

• We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Believe
  • True
  • Nature

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  Otto von Bismarck

• It is entirely legitimate for the American people to be deeply concerned when you’ve got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • American
  • Paris

• There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• My parents never pushed me towards music. I feel like, growing up in a musical household and always being surrounded by it, I was always kind of a performer child. I remember my parents would have guests over, and they would bring their kids, and I would make sure that we were ready to put a show on.

  

  Dua Lipa
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kids

• There's something that goes on in a new-business meeting that's wonderful to watch. It's like showtime. There are people who are nervous, and there are people who are jittery, and there's so much drama and so much at stake.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • People
  • Business
  • Drama

• I kick butt on karaoke with any Journey song!

  

  Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
  • Song
  • Journey

• When you cut from a long shot to a close shot, you're doing it for a reason, or if you let something stay in long shot for a long take. On the short films, I was teaching myself how to express something personal cinematically, how to use the language of film the best I could.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
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• Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

  

  Jacques Chirac