David Ignatius Quotes
The CIA in real life, we know, is looking for new kinds of cover. It's looking for new platforms, as they like to say, and it's trying to use the revolution in communications technology, the ability to use all sorts of corporate entities in ways that are hard to detect to get our spies in the places where they need to be.
David Ignatius
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
Jackie Robinson
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
Viggo Mortensen
No decent career was ever founded on a public.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
Nancy Pearcey
If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
Dan Pink
Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
Fletcher Knebel
I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
Larry Fitzgerald
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
Beatrice Wood
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
Vikas Swarup
Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
Facundo Pieres
People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
Kate Middleton
I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
Barbara Bush
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
Aaron Copland
For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
Fanny Burney
If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
Kate Hudson
I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I personally didn't want to be on it because everybody in the world tries to get to you with scripts.
Patrick Whitesell
We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
Warren Spector
At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
Floyd Skloot
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
B. C. Forbes
My life hasn't been the norm. The most interesting parts are before I got into show business.
Jim Nabors
I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.
August Wilson
India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few 'repeats.'
Neel Mukherjee
The CIA in real life, we know, is looking for new kinds of cover. It's looking for new platforms, as they like to say, and it's trying to use the revolution in communications technology, the ability to use all sorts of corporate entities in ways that are hard to detect to get our spies in the places where they need to be.
David Ignatius
