James Reston Quotes
This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't need any nicknames.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.
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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.
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Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
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I'm virile, vigorous, and potent!
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As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.
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When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work.
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I'm a guy that's worked out in the weather since I was 16. I can tell there's climate change. The cause? I'm not smart enough for that.
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Little white lies are told by humans all the time. Indeed, lying is often how we get through each day in a happy little bubble. We spend time and energy rationalizing our own behaviors, beliefs and decision-making processes.
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Everybody really don't rock with each other in Philly - that's a problem. 'Cause me being in Atlanta now, I stay in Atlanta, and I get to see everybody work with everybody no matter what.
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For me, the hardest part is getting up and writing, that's the hard part. I always felt like I could teach someone to direct if I really had to. I feel like it's a skill that's passable, but writing... writing is the worst. That's what I'm doing right now, it's just the hardest thing that you'll ever do.
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. ... Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
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This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
