George Papandreou Quotes

If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.

George Papandreou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: greek
  • Birth: June 16, 1952

Topics

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I believe that if we don't offer legal ways of emigrating to Europe and immigrating within Europe, we will be lost. If those who come - who are, generally speaking, the poor and needy - are no longer able to enter the house of Europe through the front door, they'll keep making their way in through the back windows.

Jean-Claude Juncker

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Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

Steve Coogan

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I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.

Sonia Sotomayor

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What makes a man is when you go against your own instincts to do to the right thing.

Rod Lurie

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I know my audience, and they, in turn, know my cinema. When I pick a subject, it's for a family audience. I shoot and edit my films keeping them in mind. I'm dead sure about the product that bears my name.

Rohit Shetty

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Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people's own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It's an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn't prosperity.

Rush Limbaugh

GrowthWorking TogetherTogether

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

Mike Nichols

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For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

Judd Apatow

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Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

Ariel Dorfman

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I'm a comic, so I like to stay nocturnal. I work 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Artie Lange

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I believe that we need to set conditions to close the detention facility at Guantanamo. This includes retaining the option to transfer detainees from this facility elsewhere... It is in the U.S.'s national security interest to do so.

Pete Visclosky

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