Daniel Yergin Quotes
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
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Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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I personally pay, through the majority of my stock and through cash, college tuitions of our full-time employees' kids. Life-changing events are generally covered by Boxed as well.
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I like lots of things. But there are three things I like most. Love, love and love.
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Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.
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A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.
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Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.