Jean-Claude Duvalier Quotes

All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.

Jean-Claude Duvalier

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• People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • People
  • Think
  • Strong

• Islam means peace.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Peace
  • Means
  • Islam

• Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • House
  • Working
  • Office

• My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Bad
  • Play
  • Mood

• I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Very
  • Matters
  • Pass

• When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Boy
  • Down
  • Fish

• My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Country
  • Mother

• You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Control
  • King

• I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Smile
  • Nervous
  • Friendliness

• There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Money
  • Win
  • Choose

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Women

• I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Real
  • Nice

• To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Feeling
  • Best
  • Being

• I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Me
  • Fight
  • Down

• I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Think
  • Soul
  • Leave

• The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Job

• When 'Red Tails' came along, all I knew was that they were the first African-American fighter pilots in the U.S. Air Force. I had no idea how deep the story went or about all their amazing achievements. There were a few Tuskegee Airmen on the set to make sure everything was as authentic as possible.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • American
  • Amazing
  • Air

• I always thought I'd eventually learn how to draw really well, and despite constant evidence to the contrary, I just kept on trying. If you're too good at anything, you don't have to think about the process, whereas I feel like I spend my life with my head under the bonnet, trying to understand how everything works.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• I think everyone who's successful consistently is ambitious.

  

  James Lassiter

• For the first time I began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it's great books, the 'Upnishads', and the 'Bhagavad Gita'.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
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• All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.

  

  Jean-Claude Duvalier
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