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.

  

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• It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

  

  Edmond About
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• The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing - to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from - my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.

  

  Sara Zarr
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• Look at the conference as a whole, and I don't think it's any question it's the strongest conference in the country.

  

  Chris Spielman
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• When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

  

  T Bone Burnett
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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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