Charles de Gaulle Quotes

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

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• I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.

  

  Karen Elson
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• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  

  Ma Jian
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• If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

  

  Ted Shackelford
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• I don't get hung up a lot on angst.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

  

  Raine Maida
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• I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.

  

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• Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
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• IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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• To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.

  

  Warren Moon
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• This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

  

  Walter Lang
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• You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
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• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
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• Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.

  

  Nancy Allen
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• I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.

  

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• It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

  

  Ralph Nader
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• I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.

  

  Young Thug
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• There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

  

  Paul Wellstone
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• When I look at most lineups, especially in country, women are definitely lacking in numbers.

  

  Maren Morris
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• In the early '90s, there was an attention to diversity. In this country, diversity was a good thing. People would use words like 'multicultural' and like it. Now, politically, those words are out. But I still feel theaters have to be diverse in order to survive.

  

  Kenny Leon
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• We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

  

  Charles de Gaulle
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