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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I didn't like what we did. You can't leave one country and head off to another and spend more time on the plane than training or playing.
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It's just unfortunate. People didn't know it, but he had that stress fracture for about six weeks. We were taping it, limiting practices here and there trying to get him through it, and then it just blew up on him.
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Safeguarding the interests of our Taiwan compatriots and expanding their well-being is the mainland's oft-repeated pledge and solemn promise of the new leaders of China's Communist Party central committee.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married.
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An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.