Francois Hollande Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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At the Bangalore air show, we got a contract from Boeing for supplying structural components, and we are already supplying jet engine components to Rolls Royce. Both these are titanium-based, not steel components.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.
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You can't be a victim and heal.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
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When I was starting out, I thought about how the Internet is global and that we should have a global name, a name that's interesting. At that time, the best name was Yahoo! Suddenly I thought, 'Alibaba is a good name.'
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Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.
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Values can set a company apart from the competition by clarifying its identity and serving as a rallying point for employees. But coming up with strong values - and sticking to them - requires real guts.
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The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.
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When I was little, we used to have Atari.
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You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale - and to make investments based on that - despite times when the actual data may be telling you something different.
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When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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After the commonplaces of everyday life, with their muffled dramas, all my organic expertise for dealing with physical injury had long been blunted or forgotten. The crash was the only real experience I had been through for years.
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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
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A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.
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I don't have anything left. My strength is pouring out of me just as my blood is. I've been in a death-storm countless times before. Is this death in its true form?
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I see my sister, and she's on her second baby, and I'm like, 'That's success.' Having a family - I can't wait for that.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.
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I've got a thick skin.
