Charles de Gaulle Quotes

'Do you know that you have caused us more trouble than all the rest of our European allies?' 'I do not doubt it. France is a great power.'

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• I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

  

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• We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • World
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• The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.

  

  Ofra Strauss
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• In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

  

  Wayne Allard
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• In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
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• I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

  

  Yogi Berra
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• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
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• Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.

  

  Patricia Richardson
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• Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

  

  Karl Barth
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• Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade
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• I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
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• The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
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• And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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• It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.

  

  Lady Gregory
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  • Pain
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• All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Long
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• I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Dream
  • Control
  • Scenes

• Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

  

  Lady Gaga
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  • Cake
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• Forrest saw the war as a moral crusade, a fight for decency and order, and victory to the British would mean that the Almighty, who could not possibly be suspected of Republican sentiments, had blessed the British effort.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • War
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• There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen.

  

  Kris Carr
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• Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –" "Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet." "Great idea though, thanks, Mum.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Mind
  • Control
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• 'Do you know that you have caused us more trouble than all the rest of our European allies?' 'I do not doubt it. France is a great power.'

  

  Charles de Gaulle
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