Brent Scowcroft Quotes

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

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• Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

  

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• If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.

  

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• Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

  

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• I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.

  

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• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  

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• In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.

  

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• Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.

  

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• Stand-up, by far, is my favorite.

  

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• The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!

  

  Jack Ma
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• Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.

  

  Sally Mann
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• Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.

  

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• Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

  

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• My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.

  

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• People think New York is crazy and busy, but it's actually a great place for lazy people to live.

  

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• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

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• They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.

  

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• Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.

  

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• It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

  

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• My roommates are all such happy-go-lucky guys, and I carry some of the stress around a lot more.

  

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• The United States faces structural employment problems because of the long-term effects of globalization and technology. This was only exacerbated by the Great Recession.

  

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• A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears.

  

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• Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

  

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• To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

  

  Brent Scowcroft
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