Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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The sheer density of advertising creates a psychic mass, an overlay that can sometimes be very tense or aggressive. As a citizen, you have to participate in that every day. You have to walk by until it's changed.
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The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
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If there's nothing interesting about a character, people leave because there's no desire to see what happens.
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We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
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My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
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My main concern is to protect people from detriment.
