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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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
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Sir, what is Poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is: but it is not easy to tell what it is.
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With regard to my family as I said nothing upon the subject before I may tell you that I have six children living, 1 dead and before I have the pleasure of seeing you I expect another.
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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.
