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.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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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.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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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.
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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.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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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.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn't think I was ready. I wasn't comfortable that I was prepared to do the job.
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I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.
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Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.
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I'm creating art that can be healing. Art that can make you feel like you're not alone, like you're not an outsider. Art that is useful.
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I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-school parties.
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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.
