Dennis Ross Quotes

There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.

Dennis Ross

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• When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Doing

• Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Live
  • High

• Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Born
  • Mozart
  • Parker

• When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Knowledge
  • College
  • Kid

• I think the toughest part for me was when Herschelle said that he obviously looked up to his Captain, and he felt if his Captain could do it, then so could he, and that to me was when it really struck home.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Up
  • Home
  • Think

• I don't put a very clear label on my work. If anything, I write science fiction - looking at a moment now, in the present, and then extrapolating outward to think about what the future might look like if this particular trend goes on, or if this particular trend is the most dominant. That's a science fictional tool.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Work
  • Future
  • Science

• As with all the other rappers I've worked with, Biggie and I shared common ground. Even though Biggie grew up in Brooklyn and I grew up in Chicago, we came from the same 'hood.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Chicago
  • Hood

• The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • More
  • Mathematics
  • Abstract

• My tastes are Viennese.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Tastes

• I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Chance
  • Jump
  • Back

• When I was a kid, I inhaled. Frequently. That was the point.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Kid
  • Point
  • Inhale

• In one second, without any previous training or upbringing, he had become the wettest man in Worcestershire.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Training

• There is nothing beyond the world except what we see, no background to it except its particular history.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • World
  • History

• The tyranny alike of church and state has been curbed, and true power is now known to reside where forever it must remain - in the people.

  

  Louis Sullivan
  • People
  • Power
  • True

• I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Believe
  • Die
  • Suicide

• Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Life
  • Science
  • Romantic

• But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

  

  Neil Innes
  • Song
  • Silly

• I was writing before I met Rick and actually I created the band before Rick Finch. Basically, the first album, I wrote. Who's to say what would've happened? Rick was very talented too.

  

  Harry Wayne Casey KC and the Sunshine Band
  • Writing
  • Created
  • Album

• I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Pain
  • Angry
  • Imagine

• I get inspiration from all kinds of things: I can get it from hanging out with my son, from hanging out with my wife, from checking out different artists, from hearing something at a party.

  

  Little Louie Vega
  • Party
  • Wife
  • Son

• I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Love

• There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.

  

  Dennis Ross