Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of...
NICOLAS SARKOZY I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love fo...
NICOLAS SARKOZY Francois Hollande is an intelligent man. I do not have a problem with him. The only thing is, he has...
NICOLAS SARKOZY In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. Yo...
NICOLAS SARKOZY I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, ...
NICOLAS SARKOZY I'm worried by the situation in Corsica, ... degenerate.
NICOLAS SARKOZY Things are calming, ... But that doesn't mean it won't restart.
NICOLAS SARKOZY What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship...
NICOLAS SARKOZY What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind. Americ...
NICOLAS SARKOZY No-one believes that in just three months the situation there has been properly resolved.
NICOLAS SARKOZY I am showing solidarity while being different. Or if you prefer, I am being different while being in...
NICOLAS SARKOZY We want to allow families to return to football stadiums and feel safe. It was about time.
NICOLAS SARKOZY If a wife is kept hostage at home without learning French, the whole family will be asked to leave (...
NICOLAS SARKOZY Your assembly is today called to vote on the means to dissuade and combat one of the most barbarous ...
NICOLAS SARKOZY I agree with what the prime minister said. We want selective immigration,
NICOLAS SARKOZY Certain robbery operations were being prepared. The link between terrorism and the robberies is very...
NICOLAS SARKOZY Immigration laws allow expulsions. I am the interior minister and I will apply the law...All those w...
NICOLAS SARKOZY If some want to do more, they should be allowed to do it,
NICOLAS SARKOZY The government wants to save this company, ... The worst case would lead to the disappearance of the...
NICOLAS SARKOZY We are not afraid of being isolated or standing alone,
NICOLAS SARKOZY The current elements available to me indicate that the police officers were not chasing these youths...
NICOLAS SARKOZY The terrorist threat is there, and it is at a very high level,
NICOLAS SARKOZY Terrorists are using the Internet in an extraordinary way. We will target Internet cafes because we ...
NICOLAS SARKOZY Even before we know the precise results of the analyses (on the products seized), it was better to a...
NICOLAS SARKOZY It's normal that protests cause bother, but they cannot be held in a way that paralyses the country,
NICOLAS SARKOZY Nothing -- I mean nothing -- and no-one -- I mean no-one -- will stop me going through to the end, a...
NICOLAS SARKOZY Some 85 percent of jobs created in the past 25 years have been in the public sector -- in other word...
NICOLAS SARKOZY The France that gets up early to go to work in the morning
NICOLAS SARKOZY The trust that German voters showed in you confirms that the ideas and values that we share are corr...
NICOLAS SARKOZY Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right ...
NICOLAS SARKOZY Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France. It is what the UMP asks for...
NICOLAS SARKOZY I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come...
NICOLAS SARKOZY If we want to restore hope to the French people, great changes are essential.
NICOLAS SARKOZY We are all hoping that he will recover his legendary vitality as quickly as possible, ... Chi-rac! C...
NICOLAS SARKOZY It?s an extremely heavy toll.
NICOLAS SARKOZY Europe cannot enlarge for ever. We must hold up enlargement at least until institutions have been mo...
NICOLAS SARKOZY Duel at the bedside
NICOLAS SARKOZY We no longer want an immigration that is inflicted (on us) but an immigration that is chosen, this i...
NICOLAS SARKOZY Either the facts are proved, and in that case there will be disciplinary action, or these are lies a...
NICOLAS SARKOZY We must create conditions for dialogue. All this must end as soon as possible, because each day that...
NICOLAS SARKOZY I am showing solidarity while being different.
NICOLAS SARKOZY This bomb proved to be dangerous because it shattered a train rail, ... We know nothing about this g...
NICOLAS SARKOZY For a period of 12 days, raids will be possible every time that we have a suspicion of a stockpiling...
NICOLAS SARKOZY Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
OLIVIER SARKOZY It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers an...
NICOLAS CAGE The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT One must not hope to be more than one can be.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of tim...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who de...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselve...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: ...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who ha...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The ...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdate...
NICOLAS CAGE Venezuelans have a long history. So we are able to listen to each other, to talk to each other. From...
NICOLAS MADURO We are all a little bit hippy, a little bohemian. We take that from the culture we knew, from the &#...
NICOLAS MADURO When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up....
NICOLAS ROEG Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner ...
NICOLAS CAGE Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner ...
NICOLAS CAGE Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themse...
NICOLAS WALTER A day without laughter is a day wasted.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT When someone says that the free market isn't working, what he means is that he doesn't like the way ...
NICOLAS MARTIN It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
NICOLAS CAUSSIN I don't like it when people on the street say smile or cheer up. It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling...
NICOLAS CAGE He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.
NICOLAS BENTLEY I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it fester...
NICOLAS CAGE I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than...
NICOLAS CAGE We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.
NICOLAS ROEG It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we ...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I c...
NICOLAS CAGE Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an a...
NICOLAS CAGE Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - ...
NICOLAS BERGGRUEN I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'How...
NICOLAS CAGE President Chavez has always been a loyal friend of Gaddafi, assassinated in the crudest way possible...
NICOLAS MADURO I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid pl...
NICOLAS CAGE Similar questions were posed to Allende as to me. Allende was told that he blamed everything on a co...
NICOLAS MADURO I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had ...
NICOLAS CAGE Let's dig deep to build the kind of police force that our fatherland really deserves. We need a ...
NICOLAS MADURO How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not...
NICOLAS CAGE When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a livi...
NICOLAS MADURO If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligenc...
NICOLAS CAGE Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like...
NICOLAS CAGE I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I st...
NICOLAS CAGE And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft o...
NICOLAS ROEG You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a hug...
NICOLAS ROEG I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and h...
NICOLAS ROEG I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't ...
NICOLAS ROEG The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scar...
NICOLAS CAGE I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood ...
NICOLAS CAGE I have very good relations with Pope Francis. I read constantly what he says and follow his speeches...
NICOLAS MADURO I am just a humble worker. Commander Chavez decided I should be president. To President Obama, we re...
NICOLAS MADURO The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribut...
NICOLAS MADURO I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria ...
NICOLAS CAGE Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I ...
NICOLAS CAGE I can tell you that I never aspired to be president. I always honour something that Commander Chavez...
NICOLAS MADURO You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge...
NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE The United States are ruled by a financial, media-centered, military-industrial apparatus. Behind Ob...
NICOLAS MADURO One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually re...
NICOLAS CAGE I am not that attached to material things. And the good thing is I can make choices. I have very few...
NICOLAS BERGGRUEN We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its at...
NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them fr...
NICOLAS ROEG I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles.
NICOLAS CAGE I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk r...
NICOLAS CAGE As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.
NICOLAS CAGE All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly up...
NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE I imagine if aliens came down to Earth, they'd actually be quite tall; people seem to get everyt...
NICOLAS ROEG When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little hom...
NICOLAS CAGE Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not ...
NICOLAS ROEG Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return.
NICOLAS BOILEAU Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
NICOLAS BOILEAU Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.
NICOLAS BOILEAU The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn...
NICOLAS CAGE Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's ...
NICOLAS CAGE His was the sort of career that made the Recording Angel think seriously about taking up shorthan...
NICOLAS BENTLEY The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not ...
NICOLAS BERGGRUEN Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other...
NICOLAS CAGE I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking.
NICOLAS CAGE There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.
NICOLAS CAGE I had match points in the second set but I played very badly, and I pretty much gave him that second...
NICOLAS MASSU I don't think I lost because I spoke with him. He played better than me at important moments.
NICOLAS MASSU It was a dream for me to participate in the Olympic Games -- now I am in the final and ready to win ...
NICOLAS MASSU This was one of the toughest matches I have ever played. I am glad I am through.
NICOLAS MASSU Everything hurt, my legs, my arms, my back.
NICOLAS MASSU I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place.
NICOLAS CAGE Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.
NICOLAS ROEG I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got int...
NICOLAS CAGE Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters.
NICOLAS CAGE I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at in...
NICOLAS CAGE The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like....
NICOLAS BERGGRUEN To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to str...
NICOLAS CAGE We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor...
NICOLAS CAGE I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptile...
NICOLAS CAGE I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and th...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT I don't like it when people on the street say "smile" or "cheer up." It's a real cheap line. I'm fee...
NICOLAS CAGE Guillermo is a born fighter, he'll overcome this. But beating the number nine in the world means a l...
NICOLAS ALMAGRO The win against Juan Carlos gave me a lot of confidence, and I feel very good about my game right no...
NICOLAS ALMAGRO This was a special day for me, against a great player. I've been working really hard lately and it's...
NICOLAS ALMAGRO I played eight matches during this event; three in the qualifying and five in the main draw and star...
NICOLAS ALMAGRO It's really important that I'm able to convey the way he thinks, the way he justifies what he does t...
NICOLAS CAGE The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but t...
NICOLAS CAGE I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my...
NICOLAS CAGE Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.
NICOLAS CAGE 'Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, ...
NICOLAS ROEG Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l’admire.
NICOLAS BOILEAU I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had t...
NICOLAS CAGE Everything we do impacts someone else's life.
NICOLAS CAGE As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds ...
NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a lo...
NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I en...
NICOLAS CAGE I came out of independent film, that's my roots.
NICOLAS CAGE I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk.
NICOLAS CAGE I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.
NICOLAS CAGE I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles i...
NICOLAS CAGE He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shal...
NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a...
NICOLAS CAGE It's genetically inside me somewhere.
NICOLAS CAGE It was our strategy to overtake Robbie on the first corner because it might have been difficult to d...
NICOLAS LAPIERRE Alcatraz is an unsafe place to actually make a movie in many ways because there are cliffs and rotti...
NICOLAS CAGE I've used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the ref...
NICOLAS ROEG There were two movies that asked me to go to Australia or New Zealand for long periods of time. One ...
NICOLAS CAGE Kurt went from an unknown to icon of a generation. It was like crashing your car and having everyone...
NICOLAS OTéRO The Weather Man
NICOLAS CAGE I wanted to see how much I could portray, just with voice-over and just the image I present onscreen...
NICOLAS CAGE I wish I had learned more about it in high school, but they didn't put it in the history books, ... ...
NICOLAS CAGE I wanted to see how much I could portray, just with voice-over and just the image I present onscreen...
NICOLAS CAGE feel like real time unfolding. It's going to smack of reality and feel as real as it can ... The bui...
NICOLAS CAGE I just liked Tom's demeanor -- I liked his energy,
NICOLAS CAGE [Question 2: Does he turn to the sports page first? He doesn't.] The word 'sports' has always given ...
NICOLAS CAGE At the time I agreed to do 'The Weather Man,' I was going through a divorce and I was trying to figu...
NICOLAS CAGE I think no matter what walk of life we're in or who we are, we all have that connection with our fat...
NICOLAS CAGE It is satire, but it remains in the realm of the real, as opposed to something like 'Dr. Strangelove...
NICOLAS CAGE Lord of War
NICOLAS CAGE I really want people to know that despite the title, and despite the fact that weaponry plays a majo...
NICOLAS CAGE The idea that kids younger than mine are fighting guerilla wars using guns sold for profit is just m...
NICOLAS CAGE [An actor has to let things] bubble up when you're doing a lot of the acting and telling a lot of th...
NICOLAS CAGE I always knew she was great, ... but this was the first time I got to see her in the work background...
NICOLAS CAGE Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it c...
NICOLAS CAGE There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.
NICOLAS CAGE I get stimulated by creative people, and by meeting talented people. I like putting things together,...
NICOLAS CAGE I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they ...
NICOLAS ROEG