Francois Hollande Quotes
I prefer that people remember me as a president who made reforms rather than a president who did nothing.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
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Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
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A true champion can adapt to anything.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military.
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If you can see it, you can be it. And I believe in that.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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There's always opposition when you do something big. I do many things that are controversial. When people see it, they love it!
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I first read 'The Scarlet Letter' when I was fifteen. In it, I found a familiar vision of religious intolerance to the one around me. I grew up in the 1980s, when televangelists, with their fluffed up hair and their tears, self-righteously denounced all kinds of sinners, reserving a special, full-throated enthusiasm for gay people.
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I prefer that people remember me as a president who made reforms rather than a president who did nothing.
