Charles de Gaulle Quotes

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

Charles de Gaulle

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• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Wonder

• I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Independent

• The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Lies

• When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Politics
  • First
  • Selling

• If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Know
  • Always
  • Try

• But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Imagination

• I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Food
  • Language

• There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Help
  • Innovation

• I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Market
  • Russia
  • E-Commerce

• In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Play
  • Unique
  • Trump

• Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Women
  • Say
  • Lesbian

• I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Problems

• In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Simple
  • Respond
  • Complex

• For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Daily
  • Preparation
  • Bread

• After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Work
  • Great
  • Alone

• I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Different
  • Always
  • Looking

• It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Family
  • American
  • Law

• I don't write anything if I'm not agreeable and liking it. I'm not one of these slavers who wads up paper. It comes or it doesn't.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Up
  • Write
  • Paper

• I've always looked at famous actors and hope that once they get a part that they have success in, they would reprise it every few years in the way a pop singer will reprise their hits. Like Bob Dylan singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' until he's fed up with it, finding different ways of doing it.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Up
  • Different
  • Hope

• We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Together
  • Team
  • Logic

• Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • Different
  • Country
  • Together