Brent Scowcroft Quotes
America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.Brent Scowcroft
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza -
Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
Veronica Roth -
The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
Dan Quinn -
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson -
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge -
Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
Ram Shriram -
When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
Dane Cook -
I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
Salma Hayek -
I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
E. L. James -
In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
Laura Harring -
My journey has been that of a character actor.
Harry Carey, Jr.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
Rachel Corrie -
Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
Felix Dennis -
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Camille Paglia -
China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
Jack Ma -
I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
Zana Marjanovic -
The way to resumption is to resume.
Salmon Portland Chase
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Voters should be assured that I absolutely do not support raising the retirement age for Social Security.
Bill Flores -
I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.
Edward Bennett Williams -
Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.
Peter Drucker -
While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.
Aristotle -
No one wants to be the kid who allies with the weird kid.
Kristin Cast -
America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
Brent Scowcroft