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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I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.
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Once a script is released that doesn't mean it's the final product. It's not set in stone.
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Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.
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If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.
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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.
