Manuel Valls famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

  • There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.

  • This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?

  • Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

  • I don't think it's fair - you get married, you give your wife a wedding ring. I think you should give her a mood ring. Oh, it may sound crass, but just check the color when you come home. 'Hi honey. Infernal red? Oh boy, I ain't getting laid, and I gotta cut the lawn, I know it.'

  • For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going to see repeated attempts to exploit the openings for twisting policy to the advantage of those who already have wealth and power.

  • You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.

  • Money is your friend. Your body is your friend. Life is your friend.

  • I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.

  • The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.

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