Charles de Gaulle Quotes

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Charles de Gaulle

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• Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.

  

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• Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

  

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• One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

  

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• Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

  

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• We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

  

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• I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

  

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• If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

  

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• Close friends consider me a literary snob.

  

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• Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.

  

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• I'm just glad to be able to work.

  

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• My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.

  

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• You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

  

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• I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.

  

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• Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to spend as much time in there as possible. There's nothing better while reading or writing than to be surrounded by books.

  

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• The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.

  

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• I'm so excited about 'Shattered;' it's something I've really enjoyed working in, and it's very different from anything I've done before. I've always been a character actor and done a lot of support work. I've never really been the lead actor, so I'll try and use what I've learned along the way from the other projects.

  

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• I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.

  

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• To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

  

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• Jason glanced at the creature. It remained the same distance away as before, still as a statue. "What do you want?" Jason asked. No answer. "Are you the thing that followed Tark? You should keep following him. He's the real mastermind. Shoo. Go hide." No response. "Okay, how about you stand guard while I sleep. Keep the giants away. Sound good? All in favor, hold perfectly still. Fine, I guess we have a deal.

  

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• I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.

  

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• In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

  

  Charles de Gaulle