Paul Wolfowitz Quotes
A new regime would have become the United States’ responsibility. Conceivably, this could have led the United States into a more or less permanent occupation of a country that could not govern itself, but where the rule of a foreign occupier would be increasingly resented.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
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It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.
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The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
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'The Godfather' is the talismanic giant that hangs over everything in the gangster genre.
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I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.
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Your confidence is destroyed when you find out you can't trust people.
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It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.
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Don’t you understand? You are Elder. When you take my role as Eldest, you must dedicate your whole life to this one idea: you are the caretaker of every single person on the ship. They are your responsibility. You can never show weakness in front of them: you are their strength. You can never let them see you in despair: you are their hope. You must always be everything to everyone on board.
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A new regime would have become the United States’ responsibility. Conceivably, this could have led the United States into a more or less permanent occupation of a country that could not govern itself, but where the rule of a foreign occupier would be increasingly resented.
