Charles de Gaulle Quotes
'A foreign military leader whose daring was feared by those who profited by it.' De Gaulle said that MacArthur's critics should 'pay deserved tribute to the legendary service of a great soldier'.

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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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There is no suspense in inevitability.
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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
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We are the offspring of approval-seekers. We want approval so badly that we vacillate between conforming to get it and standing out (being outstanding) to get it.
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My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Science needs the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science ... Interpretation is the logical channel of consilient explanation between science and the arts. The arts ... also nourish our craving for the mystical.
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'A foreign military leader whose daring was feared by those who profited by it.' De Gaulle said that MacArthur's critics should 'pay deserved tribute to the legendary service of a great soldier'.