Nicolas Sarkozy (Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa) Quotes
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In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
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Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.
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Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.
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The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
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In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income.
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Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.
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The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.
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I think everybody wants someone who understands them and is able to compromise and meet them halfway. I mean, it goes both ways, you know?
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Compromise in colors is grey.
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Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.
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Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.
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I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody: Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians - I'll work with Martians if - and the if is critical - they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.
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the only leader in this House that will not compromise.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.
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In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.
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I'm an avid animal lover. When I was 16, I wanted to be a vet or a zookeeper. I grew up with animals. At one time we had between five and eight dogs in the house, with four cats. We're menagerie people.
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Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France.
