Carlos Mesa Quotes
The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
-
When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
-
History is more interesting than most people think.
-
Unfortunately, my beauty regime is almost nonexistent when I am training.
-
In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.
-
Is all our Life, then, but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?Bowed to the earth with bitter woe Or laughing at some raree-show We flutter idly to and fro.Man's little Day in haste we spend, And, from its merry noontide, send No glance to meet the silent end.
-
When it comes to granting unconditional birthright citizenship, the United States and Canada are alone in the industrialized world: North American exceptionalism, you can call it.
-
Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.
-
Nelson McCormack on 'Killing Kennedy' was really terrific because I wrote the script, and he had some terrific ideas. We went over the script together, and I was with him on set. So it was a collaborative effort.
-
We're all pilgrims on the same journey - but some pilgrims have better road maps.
-
I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else has, which is a tax rate in the mid-20s and no loopholes. Zero. The U.S. has the most antiquated tax system. And that means some people are going to pay more taxes, and some people are going to pay less.
-
But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
-
I'm in a difficult position in the sense that, preposterous as this might sound, I don't like being the centre of attention. I get up on stage every night and play songs, but I almost feel the songs are the centre of attention. I don't like opening my birthday presents in front of people, either.
-
Yes, you have to be brave enough to take steps that your heart is telling you to take. Because when I decided to go into cricket, not one person told me I was making the right move. At that time, nobody thought the IPL would become so big. I was nervous at that time, because suddenly I was in an uncomfortable spot.
-
For as little as a thousand dollars, you can open an account at Schwab. I mean, it's not a big barrier to entry.
-
I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid.
-
I didn't see Saddam Hussein as being quite the danger that some other people did.
-
I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.
-
What is important is that the region, the people of Serbia, now draw a line across Milosevic's past and his life, which was a malign influence on the people of Serbia and the whole region.
-
Baron Louis de Rothschild, one of the wealthiest Jewish men in Vienna, tried to leave the city. The Nazis stopped him at the airport and put him in prison, and whatever they did to him there convinced him that he ought to sign over everything to the Nazi regime. Then they let him leave. The SS took over the Rothschild Palace on Prinz Eugenstrasse and renamed it the Center for Jewish Emigration.
-
The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.
-
My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomore in college.
-
Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.
-
The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.
