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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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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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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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
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A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.
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The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.
