David Ignatius Quotes
A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I try to do my best.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation.
