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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One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
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Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.
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Yoga is how I got sober.
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I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course..but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow. Well I suppose I, being an exemplar, could be called a teacher, in spite of myself. So go ahead, call me a teacher.
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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.
