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.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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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.
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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.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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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.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.
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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.
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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.
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I am genuinely an Independent. I agree more often than not with Democrats on domestic policy. I agree more often than not with Republicans on foreign and defense policy. I'm an Independent.
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Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
