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.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Day
  • Daily
  • Changes

• I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Movie
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Religion
  • Politics
  • India

• 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.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Done
  • True
  • Happy

• 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.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • World
  • Way

• 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.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Myself
  • Street
  • Cultures

• 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.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • America
  • Age

• 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.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Believe
  • American
  • Gun

• 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.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Picture

• When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Team
  • Focus
  • Body

• Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • You
  • Stronger
  • Crisis

• Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Children
  • History
  • Throne

• Grace can and does have a history.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • History
  • Grace
  • Does

• 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.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Money
  • Dress

• 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.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Family
  • Think
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Work
  • Country
  • Future

• Hitch your wagon to a star.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Star
  • Motivational
  • Wagon

• Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

  

  Joe Pantoliano

• I was born in Berlin, and when I was 6, my mom passed. When I was 9, I moved to near Washington, D.C., where I lived with my aunt and uncle. And then at 11, I moved back to Berlin. And then at 16, I got in trouble in school and moved back to the Washington area.

  

  Bibi Bourelly
  • School
  • Mom
  • Uncle

• I tend to pack light but still keep a large bag because I love to shop. For each destination I travel to, I like to buy something that the country or city is known for such as olive oil, truffle, jewelry, etc. I also like to buy perfumes because the smell brings me back to the memory of my travels.

  

  Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
  • Country
  • Light
  • City

• The transmissibility of avian viruses may increase as the viruses adapt to humans.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • May
  • Humans
  • Viruses

• Is it my sweat that's no longer sweet?

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Sweet
  • Longer
  • Sweat

• An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

  

  Brent Scowcroft