Quotes by Emmanuel

“War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come.”

“We have to provide more visibility, more certainty to the investors and reduce the cost of failure.”

“Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.”

“It's about our ability precisely to integrate a people and offer jobs, and that, for me, is one of the key rationales of the reforms I'm pushing, and I'm a strong believer in that when you lift bar...”

“The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.”

“Michael is not only my friend, he's my family.”

“I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.”

“I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.”

“Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.”

“I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways, and we lived through some pretty tough times ...”

“A great day in New York would be to wake up, get a cup of coffee and head up to Central Park for a nice walk. Then I'd go down to the East Village and stroll around. After that, maybe I'd go check ...”

“As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight ...”

“You can block a marriage, but you cannot force a marriage.”

“In France, I guess there's something like a tyranny in mentalities - we accept success badly, beauty, money. People are certainly envious, and this creates negative energy. This is annoying. I suff...”

“Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.”

“You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.”

“When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.”

“In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe three, but you spend all your time on the road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brussels, e...”

“To avoid the trap of Europe fragmenting on the economy, security, and identity, we have to return to the original promises of the European project: peace, prosperity and freedom. We should have a r...”

“A romantic or classical view of the French approach would have been to say, 'It's a French company; let no one attack it. Let's block any merger. But the reality is Alcatel-Lucent is not a French c...”