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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Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.
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It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
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Every time you write an email, it is in the public domain. There are all these ways where security is not as good as people believe.
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A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation.
