Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
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I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.
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I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
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The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
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You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
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I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.
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I still get excited about it. I miss playing ball.
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The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.
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I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.
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You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.
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I'm really a normal person.
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When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.
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为什么外国互联网公司到中国大都失败了？谷歌也不行、雅虎也不行、eBay这些都被中国本土公司给搞死掉了？是不是中国不能做？任何一个失败的人是最容易找藉口的，人类总是为失败找藉口，不为成功找方向。
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I love him (Josh Homme) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much ... unless you're family.
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He got his mean streak from the gutterGot his kindness from God
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I don't think there could've been a pitch as crass as Trump's 'I can fix America because I'm rich' without that groundwork laid by Davos and the Clinton Global Initiative.
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I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.
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I had an opportunity to start going around the world when I was about 18 years old. So, I did. That's one of the things that I was doing.
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I won't say I'm uncompromising, but I won't compromise just for the hell of it.
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To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
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I was France.
