Carla Bruni Quotes
I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about issues that really matter to families: job creation, spending restraint and economic development.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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Imagination creates some big monsters.
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I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.
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I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.
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The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.
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I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.
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A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.
