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  • It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic. -- Curt Weldon
  • We're probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together. -- Emeril Lagasse
  • I can't summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tati's 'Play Time.' You just have to see it. -- Rick Perlstein
  • I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli. -- Park Chan-wook
  • The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth. -- James Cameron
  • Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it. -- Norman McLaren
  • I have a thought for Nicolas Sarkozy, you know my loyalty on his account, but I profess it too for Jacques Chirac. -- Jean-Francois Cope
  • I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking. -- Anthony Bourdain
  • People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody. -- Vincent Cassel
  • I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour. -- Vincent Cassel
  • I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly sad that it's over! -- Matthias Schoenaerts
  • When I was first introduced to the music of Jacques Brel, I was totally floored. I had never heard anything as intelligent or sexy or angry as his music. -- Amanda McBroom
  • I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen. -- Walid Jumblatt
  • Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles. -- Freeman Dyson
  • I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them. -- Emmanuelle Beart
  • I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac, as I recall in April of last year, referred to Iraq's possession of WMD. -- David Kay
  • When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero. -- Enric Sala
  • Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.' -- Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed. -- Steve Albini
  • I'm quite a confident person in many ways, but there's only so much you can hear about being compared to Hattie Jacques. For the record, she was a comedy goddess, but she was 25 stone. I hope I'm right in saying I'm not in any way nearly 25 stone. -- Miranda Hart
  • I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I'm 70-something, still kicking it, having a great time, showing up in Aspen to sign cookbooks. I just want to have a nice, big, long career. -- Tyler Florence
  • I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food. -- Jacques Pepin
  • Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques. -- Charles Dickens
  • When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes. -- Terry Eagleton
  • You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen? -- Victor Borge
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  • Jacques Cousteau, the last man to see Jimmy Hoffa. Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
  • And now Jacques Laffitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Laffitte -- Murray Walker
  • The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche. -- Isadora Duncan
  • I cant summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tatis Play Time. You just have to see it. -- Rick Perlstein
  • There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, "Cut their heads off, burn their houses." -- Edwidge Danticat
  • Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat. -- Ian Botham
  • Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. -- Michel Houellebecq
  • When I was six, all I dreamt about was becoming a diver on Jacques Cousteau's boat, the famous Calypso. -- Enric Sala
  • Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high. -- Denis Diderot
  • Love is the same as being lost,' says Jacques to the dark. 'Except you don't care that you're lost. -- Jedediah Berry
  • The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again. -- e. e. cummings
  • Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques -- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
  • I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs. -- Nina Simone
  • This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction. -- Laurent Fabius
  • I stole a shirt off Jacques (Kallis) and a pullover off Harry (Paul Harris) that still had his hamburger stain on the front left side of it. -- Graeme Smith
  • I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical. -- Patricia McBride
  • Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights. -- Roger Ebert
  • In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making. -- Francis Marion Crawford
  • We could get kinky and see how bats and rats make love, he suggested in a whisper, warm breath against her neck. You are a sick man, Jacques. Very, very sick. -- Christine Feehan
  • Lots of guys don't like Jacques Plante, but he has been good to me. He's always by himself, you know, and how can you hate a guy when you never see him? -- Bernie Parent
  • Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the latter's effortless wit, and their mutual inventiveness in work that defies category. -- Vince Aletti
  • Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles." -- Freeman Dyson
  • As a woman, it seems you can't just be a comedian; you're always classed as something else, too, whether that's 'beautiful,' 'pint-sized,' 'larger-than-life' or in my case, 'Hattie Jacques-esque,' 'the giraffe,' 'big.' -- Miranda Hart
  • See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal. -- Steve Irwin
  • Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real. -- Tennessee Williams
  • It's funny, I started by making fake American movies, 'The Transporter' and stuff like that. I was shooting in France, but everything was in English. But then afterwards, I was looking at real French movies like the Jacques Audiard movies. -- Louis Leterrier
  • However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between citizens and governments sharply into political thinking, paving the way for popular democracy and constitutional republicanism. -- Simon Mainwaring
  • Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it. -- James A. Baldwin
  • [John] Adams said his objective in writing his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States and his Davila essays was to counter what he thought was the unfair criticism of the American state constitutions made by the French philosophers, especially [Anne Robert Jacques] Turgot. -- Gordon S. Wood
  • The star is the ultimate American verification of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile. His mere existence proves the perfectability of any man or woman. Oh wonderful pliability of human nature, in a society where anyone can become a celebrity! And where any celebrity . . . may become a star! -- Daniel J. Boorstin
  • What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn. -- Jean Cocteau
  • When I signed this past summer, Lou Lamoriello, Jacques Lemaire, and I agreed that if we were unable to find a suitable fit in which I would be able to compete and contribute at the level I expect from myself, then I would simply step aside. -- Brendan Shanahan
  • The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason. -- Jacques-Louis David
  • A mattoid is a miscreant who seeks to elevate himself by destroying society. Examples include the Rothschilds, David Rockefeller, Franklin Roosevelt, Meyer Lansky, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Leo Tolstoy, Alexander Hamilton, and Josef Stalin. Often mattoids are of high intelligence, tainted geniuses, despite their flawed character and lack of any morality. -- Oliver Cromwell
  • It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition. -- Camille Paglia
  • Jacques Doillon wanted me to be in his film, 'La Fille Prodigue,' and there I was, expecting, for some reason, this great bearded man, when a splendid looking red-Indian style man appeared at my door. I said no to his film because I knew that if I said yes, I would run off with him. -- Jane Birkin
  • I was in 'Jacques Brel' Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with 'Jacques Brel' doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song. -- Amanda McBroom
  • I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I know that that offends other philosophers; they think he's not taking things seriously, but he comes up with some marvellous puns. Why shouldn't you have a bit of fun while dealing with the deepest issues of the mind? -- Alan Moore
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