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'm going to discipline my kids, and can't no one tell me how to discipline my kids.
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This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
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Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.
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A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation.
