Charles de Gaulle Quotes
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.
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As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all fell victim to chronically relying on Beijing's empty promises with the distant hope that China would finally use its influence to reign in Pyongyang's provocative behavior, to no avail.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.
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Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.
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You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.
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My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
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Counting is the most simple and primitive of narratives - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 - a tale with a beginning, a middle and an end and a sense of progression - arriving at a finish of two digits - a goal attained, a dénouement reached.
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In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
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I speak with my father about everything in my life.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
