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
  • People
  • History
  • Moral

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

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Life
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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
  • Great
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• Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Passion
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• To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Feeling
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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
  • May
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• You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • You
  • New
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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
  • Fun
  • End
  • Circumstance

• 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
  • Up
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  • Marriage

• 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
  • People
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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.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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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
  • People
  • Growing
  • Turn

• 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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• I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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• I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Religion
  • Christians
  • Jews

• The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.

  

  Ted Olson
  • World
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  • Morning

• I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Live
  • Country
  • Heart

• A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
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• You never really think about what happens after the Olympics - you're just like, 'I want to compete. I want to do well' and thinking about that. After it all happened, it was such a whirlwind. I've gotten to do so many amazing things. My favorite thing was getting into acting.

  

  McKayla Maroney
  • Thinking
  • Amazing

• We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Money
  • Whiskey

• I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.

  

  Bobby Fischer
  • Movie
  • Couple
  • Japanese

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

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • Country