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

• I du believe with all my soulIn the gret Press's freedom,To pint the people to the goalAn' in the traces lead 'em.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • People
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Think
  • Forget
  • Try

• The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Deceived

• The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike
  • Universe

• Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Shining
  • Dull
  • Glitter

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

  

  Charles de Gaulle