Lionel Jospin Quotes
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I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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My favourite book in the world is 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma.
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I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
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I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.
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The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
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Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
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She has been condemned to death by hanging. A man may escape this death by becoming the hangman, a woman by marrying the hangman. But at the present time there is no hangman; thus there is no escape. There is only a death, indefinitely postponed. This is not fantasy, it is history.
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It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.
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I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid.
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There aren't as many roles, and I think there's a lack of openness in casting an Asian character in a leading role or unless they're a stereotype. It's been hard. I've been able to play some non-stereotypical roles, which is great, but I have a lot of Asian actor friends who are struggling.
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I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.
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On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.
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I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family.
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Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
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Notre Dame and Sydney - that was nothing. Notre Dame doesn't have a police station; it is not 1,000 or so feet high. It was a public structure, very easy to access. And Sydney Harbour Bridge was half-and-half: a bridge, in the middle of the night. The World Trade Center was the end of the world. Electronic devices, police dogs.
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Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.
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Music is international for me so it doesn’t matter the language.
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I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.
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I do not separate France from Europe.
