David Ignatius Quotes
Panic is a natural human response to danger, but it's one that severely compounds the risk.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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Being innovative in your philanthropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.
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Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
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But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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As a restaurateur, my palate is one of my most important tools.
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I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.
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I wish we had more [Dwight] Eisenhower Republicans in this [Donald]Trump cabinet.
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Panic is a natural human response to danger, but it's one that severely compounds the risk.
