Top 20 Georges Pompidou Quotes
#1. Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums.
Martin Filler
#2. Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history. Georges Pompidou
Mark Kurlansky
#3. I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down.
Lapo Elkann
#4. He imitated me so well that I couldn't stand myself any longer.
Georges Pompidou
#5. There are three way of courting ruin
women, gambling, and calling in technicians.
Georges Pompidou
#6. When I first arrived at the Matignon, my desire was to reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle. I had forgotten only two things. Parliament and De Gaulle.
Georges Pompidou
#7. The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.
Georges Pompidou
#8. There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
Georges Pompidou
#9. The rest of the world cannot be expected to regulate its life by a clock which is always slow.
Georges Pompidou
#10. In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.
Bob Frank
#11. There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.
Georges Pompidou
#12. Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.
Herbert Spencer
#13. I'd love to have played Joan of Arc. That would have been amazing.
Lena Headey
#14. My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.
Georges Pompidou
#15. We have never had a president of the United States or a nominee of a major party who was a Supreme Court law clerk.
Jeffrey Toobin
#16. A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
Georges Pompidou
#17. Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.
Thomas Paine
#18. Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the final analysis is nationhood.
John Henrik Clarke
#19. Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream.
Georges Pompidou
#20. We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.
Sebastian Faulks
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