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"When you live off public money, from birth to death, as have Messrs. Holland, Ayrault, Sapin and a few million others, when you pay no or hardly any social contributions, when you enjoy a pensions system reserved for your sole category, a tax-exempt system for your financial investments, and you have never invested a single euro in a business enterprise but instead placed all your money in second homes, you should at least have the honesty never to say the word 'equality', nor to demand of others, even if they are rich, more solidarity than that which you require of yourself." Gérard Dépardieu
True but easy to
I'm not keen on Depardieu...or his ghastly wine which may be why I went off him....but he has a point!
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So..blast it!
There's nought so blind (to hypocrisy) as though who do not wish to see...
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I'm no great fan of (that well known Russian) M. Depardieu either but I do have a sneaking regard for his point of view....
ReplyDeleteIndeed, me too, and his turn of phrase.
DeleteChapeau to Depardieu for saying what many may be thinking. Doesn't mean I think much of him otherwise (though I've enjoyed some of his films in the past) but he's spot on here.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's a shame no one else says it who counts, and very loudly too!
DeleteI liked him better when he was a simple Provencal peasant. Oh, that was a movie!
ReplyDeleteLOL there's nothing simple about our Gérard!
DeleteDepardieu - you have to hand it to him, he's a good actor - strikes me as a drunken old turd, tho.
ReplyDeleteIt's staggering what he can drink in a day apparently.
DeleteAn interesting, albeit long-winded (French) way of reminding the pot he's calling the kettle black. Nice sens de la répartie, Mr Depardieu.
ReplyDeleteYes, very French and it's the sort of writing that shows the expertise of the writer. I've never been able to master those convoluted phrasings (not that I've tried too hard either...).
DeleteWoooo, "fussent-ils"!!! I didn't think anyone was that grammatically correct any more. Brill.
ReplyDeleteYep, you have to admire his skill with language!
DeleteI hate admitting it because I am not a fan of his, but Gerard does have a point.
ReplyDeleteOf course, you don't have to like someone to recognise the truth in what they say. And no one could dispute his words here!
DeleteI think that Depardieu is spot on on this one. I have to admit that I don't understand France any more...
ReplyDeleteMe neither, I believe it's going to the dogs and there is worse to come. :(
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