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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	TV is the best babysitter.   
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	No, my profile has leaped over recent years, so has my life experience, and I look forward to the next 30 years being even more rewarding and satisfying than the previous 60!   
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	You want to take action every day, not sit around waiting for something to happen.   
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	A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to one's work.   
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	We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.   
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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.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					