Jean-Pierre Raffarin Quotes
The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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I am fortunate to have only worn one shirt in my career. It is something that is fundamental to me. It is something I have always wanted: to be one of these few who wear only one shirt - a fan and a player of the same team.
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We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
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For a long time, I had been very secretive about a lot of the things I'd been through personally, and a lot of that is purposeful. My fan base, for the large part, is the younger generation. They're like, 'I want to know everything! I want to know it all!'
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Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
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For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.
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The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.
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Indian-ness, love for your country, is complicated. For every person, there is a different way that you show respect for your country... my mother-in-law will say karmayogi is the way to go - do your work.
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The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.
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I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.
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Electric eels I might add do it, Though it shocks 'em I know...
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I've tried to go on like I never knew youI'm awake but my world is half asleepI pray for this heart to be unbrokenBut without you all I'm going to be is incomplete.
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I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.
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At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.
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For my daughter I would suffer through a thousand divorces, a million uncomfortable phone calls, a trillion emotionally fraught text messages.
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This is strictly personal opinion, not company policy, but I do think that we could do with having a USIA on steroids.
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I want to do stunts and play a badass. Like Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman. Physicality, fun, evilness.
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Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.
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The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.
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The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.
