Charles de Gaulle Quotes

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Charles de Gaulle

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• It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • True
  • Identity
  • Interests

• I love listening to Lil' Wayne, Drake, and Eminem to get me fired up!

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Up
  • Love
  • Me

• I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Day
  • Look
  • Camera

• Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Worse
  • Burn
  • Universities

• I don't believe in murder.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Believe

• My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Good
  • She
  • Mother

• The Big Five is a competition played in the University of Pennsylvania's Palestra among five Philadelphia-area Division I schools: Saint Joseph's, La Salle, Penn, Temple, and Villanova. 'The Big Five' was immensely popular, and rivalries quickly grew to intense proportions.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Popular
  • Competition
  • Big

• I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Pretend
  • Digital
  • Apprentice

• People don't actually stay still, you know - when their area is a disaster, they go somewhere else, right? And that's just a natural human impulse.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • You
  • Know

• I'm not a greedy person, I just want to accomplish so many different things.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Different

• The men who are successful have become the most dependent on success to attract love. When this man loses his success, he often fears he will lose love.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Success

• Creativity is the universal of universals characterizing ultimate matter of fact. It is that ultimate principle by which the many, which are the universe disjunctively, become the one actual occasion, which is the universe conjunctively. It lies in the nature of things that the many enter into complex unity.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Nature
  • Universe
  • Lies

• Wiederhorn, Jon (February 8, 1996). Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back. Rolling Stone.

  

  Layne Staley
  • February

• What does matter is this: the Russians successfully meddled in our democracy, and our intelligence agencies have concluded that they will do so again.

  

  Adam Schiff
  • Democracy

• In Africa, as you're being successful and doing things right, you're also creating a lot of enemies.

  

  Aliko Dangote

• We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Star

• I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Up

• I listen to a lot of Drake and Meek Mill before games.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis

• My first airplane trip was to Paris. I had this fantasy that I would become a model, and I did!

  

  Jerry Hall
  • Model
  • Paris
  • Airplane

• We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target.

  

  Bob Livingston
  • People
  • Trying
  • School

• The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.

  

  David Mitchell
  • Life
  • World
  • Strong

• Glamour can be something very simple. Glamour can be how you wash your face, how you make your breakfast.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Simple
  • Faces
  • Breakfast

• There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

  

  Charles de Gaulle