Jean-Pierre Raffarin Quotes
I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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I'm the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance.
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Songwriters tell the truth.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.
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Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.
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I used to tell people if they looked at a map, it was right in the middle of the United States. But now everybody knows Oklahoma because of the Thunder and their success. I don't know if I'll get 'Why?' anymore.
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I'm reteaming with the producers of 'Twilight' on an awesome script. It's very serious, dramatic and different for me. I'm excited to see what's next. I love all aspects of film and all genres.
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When I started Teach For America as a college senior, I sensed that there were thousands of talented, driven college students and recent grads who were searching for a way to make a real difference in the world.
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You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up.
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My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.
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I hate it when bands do that; they're so proud of their new album, they have to play all of it and a couple of golden oldies.
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The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
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How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?
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Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces our reality.
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We're living through the second Industrial Revolution.
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I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.
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Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry. I've always felt whatever the opposite of disillusioned is. I guess illusioned with movies and with people in movies and things like that. It's all exciting to me.
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I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.
