Julien Clerc quotes

“At (UNHCR's) headquarters, I met extraordinary people, men and women, especially from the emergency team, who shared with me their passion, their dedication and their commitment to this organisation and refugees. They told me about the daily difficulties they have to face and also the joy they felt when they managed to save a person whose life was threatened.”
-- Julien Clerc

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“Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity”
-- Julien Clerc

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“I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.”

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“Regarding stickyfish teams, I favor the Bigfield Fighting Koobish.”

“I have to continue to be a great leader and contribute in any way that I can, and get guys to follow suit. That's how you turn a team around.”

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“You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.”

“Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.”

“As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted for, and disposed to Society. It was not good for Man at first to be alone; his nature is social, having various Affections, Propensities and Passions, which respect Society, and cannot be indulged without a social Intercourse.”

“One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me. It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God's holy ordinances shall be established again in the home, in the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord, to which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to God”

“Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.”

“Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.”

“Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.”