Charles de Gaulle Quotes

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Charles de Gaulle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: leader
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: November 22, 1890 - November 9, 1970

Topics

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Best-friend tattoos require so much prep work, which adds to their legitimacy. First, a friendship must be deep enough to warrant the rite; then the perfect symbol must be found to forge the bond.

Jenna Wortham

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Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare.

Michael Ignatieff

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I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.

Tom Hodgkinson

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My parents are very even-keeled. You know, just kind of steady as she goes.

Tom Glavine

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I have a strange habit of walking down streets and staring up, rather than looking at shopfronts and stuff like that.

Michael Redhill

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I played saxophone for 15 years. I played out. It never reached any kind of a level that was recording or anything.

Dayton Callie

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If you're not really having fun then there's no point of really trying.

Willow Smith

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It has been popular to threaten 'small islands and low-lying coasts' with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.

Nils-Axel Morner

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The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I verifly believe it would be impossible throughout the length and breadth of Wiltshire to find a single bad cottage on any large estate, so well and so thoroughly have the landed proprietors done their work.

Richard Jefferies

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An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.

Linus Torvalds

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Heroes and heroines don't commit adultery.

Leigh Michaels

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Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.

Kristin Scott Thomas

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