Francoise Sagan Quotes
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
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Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.
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A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
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What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
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One of the things that I am concerned about is the degree to which we've seen a lot of commentary lately where there were, there are Republicans or pundits or cable commentators who seemed to have more confidence in Vladimir Putin than fellow Americans because those fellow Americans were Democrats. That cannot be.
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I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.
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I always believe things are going to work out.
