Nicolas Sarkozy (Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa) Quotes

The French people have chosen change. This change I will put into place.

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• I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Pretty
  • Kind
  • Play

• You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Lost
  • Yourself
  • Golf

• Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • American
  • Guy

• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Light
  • Broken
  • Habit

• As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Important
  • Power
  • New

• The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Money
  • Wife
  • Best

• I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Up
  • Family
  • Faith

• You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Believe
  • Feet
  • Believe In Yourself

• You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Work
  • Done
  • Together

• What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Mind
  • Culture
  • Enlightenment

• I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Control
  • Play
  • Person

• Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • People

• My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution. I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don't think it explains individual species evolution at all well.

  

  Ben Stein
  • Feeling

• You can't put rubbish into a computer and get something good out.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Good

• Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Book
  • Past
  • Reading

• Once it was suggested that Saddam Hussein might give his weaponry to terrorists, or might use weapons himself in the region, then it became hard for the Democrats to say, 'Well, that can't happen.'

  

  Chris Matthews

• I have a fleet of Rimowa Topas aluminum suitcases! They're all covered in stickers from around the world.

  

  Chris Benz
  • World

• In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Country
  • Meeting

• Overly restrictive regulations not only stifle the private sector; they also ultimately hurt consumers.

  

  Ajit Pai
  • Hurt

• I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Feels
  • Knows
  • Faces

• The French people have chosen change. This change I will put into place.

  

  Nicolas Sarkozy
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