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Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.
Francois Hollande

Future, Today, Long

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.
Francois Hollande

Time, Patriotism, Battle

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.
Sally Field

Last, Year, Almost

In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.
Paula Radcliffe

Best, Career, Able

It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.
Helena Christensen

Career, Fashion, Big

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.
Melissa Gilbert

Life, Love, Family

The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.
Novak Djokovic

Hope, Country, Forgive

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.
Sean Parker

End, Takes, Super

But, it's because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted.
Novak Djokovic

Life, Past, Succeed

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
Conrad Black

Change, War, End

In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.
T. Boone Pickens

America, Energy, Plan

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.
Phyllis Schlafly

Women, Win, Security

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
Saul Williams

Black, Why, Old

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
Ibrahim Babangida

Experience, Sad, Nothing

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?
Azar Nafisi

Marriage, Time, Good

To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.
Brittany Murphy

Time, Give, Honor

Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.
Stockwell Day

Together, Vote, Democratic

I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history.
Seann William Scott

Work, Home, Done

If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.
Strom Thurmond

Great, Government, Society

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.
Marc Jacobs

Waiting, Long, Whatever

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.
Kirstie Alley

Faith, Religion, Men

Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?
Gary North

Jesus, Loser, Lord

In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
Julian Assange

Put, Nobody, Material

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.
Steve Yzerman

Few, Red, Wings

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

Direction, Movement, Solidarity

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