David Ignatius Quotes
Bob Gates has unusual standing in the debate about the Obama administration's foreign policy: He was defense secretary for both a hawkish President George W. Bush and a wary President Obama. He understood Bush's desire to project power and Obama's skepticism.
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.
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Congress has a right and a need to know what this proposed deal would mean for terminal operations and security at our ports. Even if they come later than we would have liked, we must get the facts.
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Women want fair taxes, a growing economy, affordable health care, secure borders, and the defeat of ISIS. They don't need the solutions to be wrapped in pink. They just want problems solved.
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The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese state has not been obliged to compete for power with rivals such as the church, the aristocracy or merchants.
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Bob Gates has unusual standing in the debate about the Obama administration's foreign policy: He was defense secretary for both a hawkish President George W. Bush and a wary President Obama. He understood Bush's desire to project power and Obama's skepticism.
