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.
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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.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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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.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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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.
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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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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?
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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.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.
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Rich people take advice from people who are richer than they are. Poor people take advice from their friends, who are just as broke as they are.
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life.
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Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.
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I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.
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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.
