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

• You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what they do. I could never do their jobs, and they say they wouldn't know how to start to do a warm-up.

  

  Randy West
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I love to conduct opera.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Opera

• 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

• They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • Time

• 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

• It is important in this journey to remember that just because someone has inflicted hurt upon us, it does not give us the right to do the same. Body shaming and hurtful tactics will never get the job done.

  

  Zendaya
  • Important
  • Done
  • Job

• One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Work
  • Want
  • Female

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

  

  Charles de Gaulle