Daniel Pipes Quotes
Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.
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Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.
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The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
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I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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It was a unique childhood, to say the least. My father was born in Patiala to refugee parents and was a part of the Indian Air Force. The talented few amongst the Air Force pilots are made test pilots. Test pilots are best suited to look at the space programme as they are trained to expect the unexpected.
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Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
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Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.
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I'm sometimes mistaken as the wife of the chairman. I just laugh it off.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
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Sexually progressive cultures gave us mathematics, literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust. Not that I’m trying to load my argument, of course.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides.
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America is best when we come together with clear leadership, expertise, and the political will to take on difficult challenges and get things done. No one should ever doubt the strength and resilience of our country and our democracy.
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When things don't come so naturally to you, you want to persevere, you want to keep pushing yourself to overcome obstacles that prevent you from having the kind of life that you want to have.
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I realized that work doesn't beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.
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Become your dream, and not be told what you are supposed to do.
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The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
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Festivals are the best because you can't control anything, and for a control freak like me, that's a wonderful experience.
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You name it, I'm interested in a lot of things.
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It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.
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Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.
