Brent Scowcroft Quotes

My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

Brent Scowcroft

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• I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Work
  • War
  • Day

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Feeling
  • Simple
  • Destiny

• I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• 'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Movies
  • Favorite
  • Fargo

• I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • America
  • Think
  • New York

• What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Think
  • Change

• I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Actor
  • Studied
  • Lee Strasburg

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Taken
  • King
  • Only

• You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Work
  • Music
  • Artist

• It's kind of fun to be sexy.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Sexy

• I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Save
  • Billions
  • Metro

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Rights
  • Estate
  • Requests

• I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.

  

  Kaki King
  • People
  • Want
  • Play

• That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Life
  • Business
  • Loved

• First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Present
  • Study
  • Construction

• From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Years
  • Nirvana
  • Nevermind

• So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Control

• If you truly love someone, you only give love. Even if the person hates, you love and love and love.

  

  Sahir Ludhianvi
  • Love
  • Person
  • Give

• My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

  

  Brent Scowcroft
  • Peace
  • Fighting
  • Priority