Brent Scowcroft Quotes

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

Brent Scowcroft

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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

• You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency - your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Light

• People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • People
  • Animals
  • Gods

• I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • Good

• Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas I don't invent dialogue for my subjects or plot their lives for them.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Nature

• In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming back in the next race. I'm always ready for the next race.

  

  Donovan Bailey
  • Running

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

  

  Brent Scowcroft