Jean-Pierre Raffarin Quotes

The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Law

• After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Me
  • Saying

• Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hell

• Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Important
  • End
  • Theory

• Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Job
  • Strong
  • Freedom

• There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Country
  • Million
  • Per

• I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Rock
  • Now
  • Ready

• Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Good
  • Society
  • Marriage

• The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Great
  • Small

• Adele's look is meticulously thought through and completely of her own traits. She has such a powerful beauty, such an emotional voice, and the kohl, the hair, everything feels organically molded to her personality.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • She
  • Powerful
  • Hair

• Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Time
  • Back
  • Broke

• I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Music
  • Understand
  • Blues

• I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Up
  • School
  • Art

• I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Great
  • Proud
  • Travel

• I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Health
  • Day
  • Yoga

• I've traveled to many countries in Africa, and to me, Benin felt the most hopeful.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Countries
  • Hopeful
  • Traveld

• My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • She
  • Age
  • Mom

• I can't believe that I was one of those people who said 'I'm not really a sci-fi fan.'

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • People
  • Believe
  • Said

• There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • People
  • Time
  • House

• A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Good
  • Dreamer

• I love Chicago. It's one of the great cities. I'm crazy about the town. It reminds me of New York when it was at its best, the New York that used to be and is no more. I love the architecture, the old stuff and the new stuff.

  

  Peter Falk
  • Great
  • Crazy
  • Architecture

• When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.

  

  Iman
  • Black
  • Down
  • Modeling

• Vegetarianism preserves live, health, peace, the ecology, creates a more equitable distribution of resources, helps to feed the hungry, encourages nonviolence for the animal and human members of the planet, and is a powerful aid for the spiritual transformation of the body, emotions, mind, and spirit.

  

  Gabriel Cousens
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Peace

• The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.

  

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin