Francois Hollande Quotes
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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.
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Never regret what you don't write.
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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.
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At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
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Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances.
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There are individuals who can support you, but frequently, you have to risk putting yourself out there - and sometimes you just have to push.
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I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.
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Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.'
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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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To waft a feather or to drown a fly.
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The main reason there are no raw devices in Linux is that I personally think that raw devices are a stupid idea.
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My week beats your year.
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The various levels of problems and issues are interwoven, so that solving any one of them without simultaneously addressing the others rarely works for long.
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There is nothing new... everything has roots in the past.
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All Americans should be exempt from the atrocities of Obamacare - no exception.
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The supportive care that we're able to provide in the United States is so much better, so much more sophisticated, than what's available in West Africa. ... So we can move that needle of survival way down. Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially better than that here. Moving Survival Supportive Care Sophisticated Rate Able Borders Doctors Ebola Needles States United United States Way West Doctors Without Borders Available Can Do Fatality Percent West Africa
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I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.
