Francois Hollande Quotes

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

Francois Hollande

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• When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Up
  • Stop

• Never regret what you don't write.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • You
  • Never
  • Regret

• There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Men
  • Together
  • Commitment

• At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Period
  • Being
  • Height

• Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Never

• There are individuals who can support you, but frequently, you have to risk putting yourself out there - and sometimes you just have to push.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Support
  • Risk
  • Yourself

• I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • World
  • Work
  • Want

• Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Great
  • Tragedy
  • Storytelling

• I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Child
  • Movies
  • Books

• I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.

  

  Gary Numan
  • She
  • Mother
  • Me

• When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.

  

  Tablo
  • You
  • Independent
  • Succeed

• I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Up
  • Focus
  • Say

• An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Long
  • May
  • Words

• Schools currently excel in encouraging children to express opinions, but are deficient in encouraging children to say, for example, 'Oh, that’s different from my perspective – tell me more.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Different
  • Children
  • Perspective

• A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

  

  Jack Vance

• Indeed, collective triumph will also depend both on the application of reason and the recognition that a great deal of knowledge is indeterminate and may be temporally, spatially and perhaps culturally constrained.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Great
  • May
  • Knowledge

• To waft a feather or to drown a fly.

  

  Edward Young
  • Fly

• We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

  

  Roberto Bolano
  • Stop
  • Living
  • Although

• Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.

  

  Raymond Chandler
  • Writing
  • Yourself

• I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine.

  

  Jessica Simpson

• You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment.

  

  Darrell Issa
  • Pain

• I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

  

  Francois Hollande