"I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand."

-- Francois Hollande

#President Quotes

“A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!”
“Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra”

Source : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. December 1, 2004.
“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.”
“[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. That's what scientists mean when they talk about a theory: not a dreamy and unreliable speculation, but an explanatory statement that fits the evidence. They embrace such an explanation confidently but provisionally - taking it as their best available view of reality, at least unil some severely conflicting data or some better explanation might come along.”
“My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.”
“I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women's access to birth control. We have lived in that world, and we are not going back, not ever”

Source : "During Government Shutdown, Nonprofits Amplify Message About Women’s Reproductive Rights", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.
“You can dress attractively without being immodest. Within the Lordâ€™s guidelines, there is room for you to be lively, vibrant, and beautiful both in your dress and in your actions.”
“I do think of my work as being quintessentially American in that it could only have emerged in that particular situation that I find myself. I feel that a lot of my work is working on problems that might be specifically American problems, but not exclusively.”

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