Francois Hollande Quotes

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

Francois Hollande

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• When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • Important
  • Nature
  • Deep

• One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Needs
  • Barbecue
  • DJ

• If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Play
  • Violence
  • Suffering

• Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Imagination

• Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Best
  • Pie
  • Controversial

• I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Always
  • Fiction
  • Historical

• As an entrepreneur you keep trying things, and I try everything. I try business ideas, on our website we test everything, iterate, iterate, iterate.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Ideas

• Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

  

  Beah Richards
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Meet

• The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Inspiration
  • Groups
  • Teenagers

• If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Artist
  • Successful
  • Greatest

• The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • First
  • Come
  • Second

• I've trained all my life. I've always been one who enjoys training so it's not something that I think I can just stop doing. It might not be as regular but I want to keep training.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Training

• To the Non-Proliferation Treaty, was based on a firm conviction that there can be peace only through the elimination of all nuclear weapons, moved towards the limitation of nuclear armaments and other weapons of mass destruction, are important steps in creating an atmosphere of trust and the relaxation of tensions.

  

  Ziaur Rahman
  • Important
  • Peace
  • Trust

• Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Business

• Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Freedom
  • Risk

• There was one television in the living room, and we all sat around on Sundays and watched Ed Sullivan.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor

• Never king dropped out of the clouds.

  

  John Selden
  • King
  • Clouds

• Make your office comfortable for you, and optionally comfortable for others.

  

  Randy Pausch

• I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Nature

• I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchy's sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, 'The Artist is Present', in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress.

  

  Joan Smalls
  • Time
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

  

  Francois Hollande