David Ignatius Quotes
Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
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Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.
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Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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The fashion world is so interesting because it's always changing, but if you know yourself really well, despite of all the changes in the fashion trends, you know how to stay true to yourself.
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I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence.
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As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself.
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I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so.
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The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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As I've gotten older, I've realized my true models are my parents. My mom is like a sheroe. My dad is so strong.
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It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true - his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power.
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I don't think that the Internet creates feelings that aren't there, nor does it provide an outlet. On the contrary, what I have thought about things like computer games - what has disturbed me about them - is that they appear to stimulate feelings of aggression without providing any physical release.
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Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.
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The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.
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I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.
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Rio 2016 is definitely on my mind, and I would really like to go to some more World Championships before that.
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Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.
