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.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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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.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Great
  • Different
  • School

• There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • People
  • Water
  • Leave

• 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.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Career
  • Team
  • Player

• 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.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• 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!'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Attitude
  • Will
  • Altitude

• 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.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Taken

• The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Bad
  • Political
  • Results

• 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.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Work
  • Country
  • Way

• The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • House
  • Food
  • Unique

• I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • House
  • Random
  • Many

• At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Party
  • Dinner
  • New Years

• I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Men
  • Energy
  • Normal

• Electric eels I might add do it, Though it shocks 'em I know...

  

  Cole Porter

• 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.

  

  Backstreet Boys
  • World
  • Heart

• 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.

  

  David Byrne Talking Heads
  • Home
  • American

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Age

• For my daughter I would suffer through a thousand divorces, a million uncomfortable phone calls, a trillion emotionally fraught text messages.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Daughter
  • Text

• Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

  

  Kevyn Aucoin
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Ugly

• I want to connect with my fans the way Mary J. Blige's fans connect with her.

  

  Ne-Yo

• As a child, I had a teacher who told me, 'Look, Anne, one person can't make a difference.'

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Teacher

• There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Death
  • Joy
  • Vitality

• The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.

  

  Margaret Whiting
  • Time

• 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.

  

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin