Jean Monnet Quotes

France is the nation of the rights of man. … I am sure that none of you commits the insult of thinking that the government, the army, or the administration could wish for and organize torture.

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• It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Movie
  • Monster
  • Supernatural

• I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Important
  • Age

• When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Food
  • Hand
  • Service

• I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • War
  • Feel
  • Mistakes

• What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Energy

• I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Good
  • Done
  • Better

• Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Calm
  • Events
  • Quiet

• I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Thinking
  • Growth
  • Environmental

• Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • You
  • Everything
  • Impact

• I love doing serious movies for adults.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Serious
  • Doing
  • Movies

• My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Life
  • Person
  • Educated

• Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • More
  • Race
  • Variety

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• I've been fortunate, I guess: I've gotten to play a lot of very diverse roles for quite a long time. But in the beginning, I was thinking, 'I'm not gonna do certain characters. I will be willing to say no and live on a couch.' And I was really happy.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Nonsense

• Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Family
  • Fear
  • Trust

• I grew up listening to a lot of different types of music, and R&B in particular was something that I loved - Aaliyah, Usher, Alicia Keys, TLC.

  

  Yuna
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Why
  • She
  • High

• Detest it as lewd intercourse, it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life. Having himself spent a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to prove Euclid's postulate that parallel lines do not meet, Farkas discouraged his son János from any further attempt.

  

  Farkas Bolyai
  • Happiness
  • Lifetime
  • Attempt

• He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Analysis
  • Suffered
  • He

• France is the nation of the rights of man. … I am sure that none of you commits the insult of thinking that the government, the army, or the administration could wish for and organize torture.

  

  Jean Monnet
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  • Army