Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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For me, I always try to make it to the final.
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Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
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My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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Surfing is my religion, if I have one.
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There are no accomplished golf tour operators in Indonesia, so a golf holiday there is a do-it-yourself operation. But don't let that deter you.
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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
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I thought I was gonna do Lear, but I'm gonna do Maura.
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You can write 'little beast' if you want, but my name is David Ferrer.
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No nation has friends only interests.
