Francoise Sagan Quotes
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.
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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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I'm good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O'Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.
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Better a broken promise than none at all.
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If you stay by the book, it's not always going to work. You've got to venture off a little bit. But you can't get too reckless, either.
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I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing.
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A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket values; to subordinate every aspect of American life to corporate 'efficiency' and the bottom line; to demonize not only government but the very idea of public service and public goods.
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I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
