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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There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.
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Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.
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We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.
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I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.
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Long live free Quebec!
