Charles de Gaulle Quotes
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
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The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.
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It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
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Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
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I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself, which is what I did in my career.
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
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I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.
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During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.
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Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
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Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.
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If we are happy within ourselves, we don't accept or demand that our partner should fulfill every need. We need to be comfortable with our own company.
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I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.
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People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it.
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Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.
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If I was a boy, nobody would care that I worked out six, seven hours a day when I was 9 years old, no? Why were people always saying 'poor little girl?' I liked to work out and always did more than I was asked to.
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I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.
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In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
