Brent Scowcroft Quotes
An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
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I'll tell you something, and this is true: I've never been able to write a film which I didn't respect. I just can't do it. I'm very happy about all the films I haven't done.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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I love nothing better than immersing myself in different street cultures; exploring all those neighbourhoods in Tokyo was quite amazing, or visiting Morocco to see an Inditex factory.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
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Grace can and does have a history.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.
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Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.
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Hitch your wagon to a star.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.
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I would like to go down as the greatest receiver in this game. I'm not doing all this hard work for nothing.
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As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job of presenting them if you leave your beliefs at the door.
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Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.
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An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.
