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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Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used for dismantling a refrigerator or a car, or used for hammering in nails, or even for knocking somebody out.
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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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Be careful about the advice you give, especially to your children.
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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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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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If I make a movie in English, the money will come from Europe, so that I can keep my independence and freedom. The way they produce in Hollywood doesn't fit me.
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Kissinger was surely one of the very few statesmen to try to do something positive to break the log jam of the Cold War; to try to end the war in Vietnam; to bring a halt to the cycle of war in the Middle East.
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I'm a sucker for packaging!
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Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.
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I do not separate France from Europe.
