Martin Jacques Quotes

The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agenda, somehow believe that the future of the world is being played out in the Middle East and Central Asia rather than East Asia has only served to accelerate China's rise and the U.S.'s decline.

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  J. R. Smith
  • Different
  • Chance
  • Thought

• I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • Science
  • Past

• Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Obsessed
  • General
  • Sneakers

• Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Think
  • Know
  • Never

• I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

  

  Ed Harris
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• It's important to have masculine energy around your child.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Child

• By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • People
  • Job
  • Ideas

• The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Time
  • American
  • Best

• It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Heart
  • Dreams
  • Texas

• My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • World
  • Parents
  • Positive

• No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.

  

  Abdul Qadeer Khan
  • Money
  • Nation
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• I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

  

  Larry Niven
  • People
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• I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Government

• I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Think
  • Desire
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• What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Time
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  • Explain

• Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Great
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• I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Fun
  • Years
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• I like a very sexy silhouette, and I like to feel like when you put something on, you zip yourself into it, and you're secure in there.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Feel
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• It is a little surprising given the strength of the economy that there is a perception - at least among some of the public - that the economy is not very good.

  

  Edward Lazear
  • Good
  • Economy
  • Perception

• Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.

  

  Jane Taylor
  • Help
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

  

  David Dinkins
  • Children

• Feed the troops on victory.

  John Monash
  • Victory

• Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.

  

  Oliver Emberton
  • World
  • History
  • Freedom

• The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agenda, somehow believe that the future of the world is being played out in the Middle East and Central Asia rather than East Asia has only served to accelerate China's rise and the U.S.'s decline.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • World
  • Believe
  • Future