"The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe."

-- Francois Hollande

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“And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.”

Source : Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.8, Penguin
“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.”
“Liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.”

Source : "Cakewalk In Iraq". www.washingtonpost.com. February 13, 2002.
“I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.”
“Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like magic?”

Source : Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.28, Atlantic Books Ltd
“When you are doing endurance swimming you just need to take in as many carbs as possible to put on as much weight as you can. Basically you can eat whatever you want, which can be quite fun. Everything is guilt-free.”
“The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.”

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