"I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. That can only work in the longer-term. I want euro bonds to be used to finance targeted investments in future-oriented growth projects. It isn't the same thing. Let's call them 'project bonds' instead of euro bonds."

-- Francois Hollande

#Country Quotes #Growth Quotes #Debt Quotes

“We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.”
“The story [of Allied ] itself is the story I wrote, and that's what's great about Bob [Zemeckis ]. You have meetings, but it's meetings for clarity, not to change what they're saying or doing. He takes what's on the page and executes it so brilliantly.”
“If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern for us. To me it would seem impolite if not impious to bother such a God with our prayers.”

Source : Steven Weinberg (1992). “Dreams of a Final Theory”, Pantheon
“If I had a reed made of lightening I could blow the sax all night... I don't know where one would acquire a reed made of lightening but I would imagine that Bill Clinton has one.”
“I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.”
“In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.”

Source : Peter Zumthor (1999). “Architektur denken”
“As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.”
“My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.”

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