Francois Mitterrand Quotes
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
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Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.
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Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.
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I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.
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In the welter of conflicting fanaticisms, one of the few unifying forces is scientific truthfulness, by which I mean the habit of basing our beliefs upon observations and inferences as impersonal, and as much divested of local and temperamental bias, as is possible for human beings.
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One of the great, and largely forgotten, triumphs of American society and government has been how smoothly U.S. farmers and their communities negotiated the creative destruction of the early 20th century and emerged triumphant when it was over.
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There's a glee in building a world that is constructed on corporate synergy and all the luxuries of our modern life, and then just tearing it apart. I enjoy that!
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France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
