David Ignatius Quotes
Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.
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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
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Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools.
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If you want to get along, go along.
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I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.
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It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.
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History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
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Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.
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I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.
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Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don’t know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hard and tortuous to write a bad one.
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Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.
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Be held truthful that your lies may count.
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Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.
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Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.
