Jacques Chirac Quotes
These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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War is over if you want it.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother's old ones.
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My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country flourished, how many millions of tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you.
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Politeness is a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.
