Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I've never been a partier.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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I love my sleep.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
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I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
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Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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I think artists are scared to have same-gendered pronouns in their writing, and I don't think it's because they're scared to be out, because gay artists are visible, but they don't want to alienate an audience.
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Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
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In Glendale, where I live, there's a street called Broadway. The bottoms of the light posts have swastikas on them.
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Long live free Quebec!
