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Nicolas Sarkozy Quotes

France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: french
Birth: January 28, 1955

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Responsibility Defeat New Now Assume

There's this Afghani kid in Stockholm called Phat Deuce who's started sending us his music, and he's amazing.

Music Amazing Kid Started Us He

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.

Morning Light Simple Mountains Me

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

Man Mind Me Looking Forward Forward

One of my first heroes was Jim Robson, the hall-of-fame broadcaster with the Canucks and Hockey Night in Canada, and Jim Ross with the WWE and Howard Cosell was a big influence on me.

Me Influence Night Hockey Canada

I have the most eclectic audience - I've got gay, I've got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries. And they don't all come because I'm the Sinatra kid, though that's a big part of it. My biggest successes have come from pop songs that I write myself.

Myself Black Rich Gay White Young

Strangely enough, I wasn't into fast guitarists. I preferred Peter Green's subtle touch. I saw him with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers at the Marquee Club in London and was very impressed. He was the only guitarist I've ever seen to turn the volume control on his guitar down during a solo.

Green Control Guitar Enough Down

To me, spirituality is the everyday stuff which we're dealing with all the time. It's not going into some ecstatic trance. It's changing a nappy, or making a meal at the end of a very tiring day.

Time Day Me End Everyday Meal

Working with the earth is peaceful for me.

Me Peaceful Earth Working

If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Believe Nobody Salary I Believe Same

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

Power Teacher Respect Great Me

Especially after the Twin Towers, we're so terrified of 'Arabic' people. And talk about stereotypical negative portrayals of people of certain groups, if you look at the portrayal of Arabic people in Hollywood films, it's just appalling. They've always been just the easiest of targets - along with native Africans and what have you.

People Negative You Look Hollywood

If I have to go through Fury after my Povetkin fight - and I never look past my next fight; I am not that foolish - to get those belts, I would love to fight him next.

Love Past Fight I Am Look Go

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