Nicolas Sarkozy (Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa) Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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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.
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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.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.
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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.
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You can't put rubbish into a computer and get something good out.
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Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
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I wasn't talented as a musician.
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We live in a liberally free country founded by people who were liberal. They were beyond liberal - they were revolutionaries.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
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What I need is for comics to not cheapen out and just do what they think a bunch of bloodthirsty 15 year old fans want.
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The French people have chosen change. This change I will put into place.
