Brent Scowcroft Quotes
Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
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I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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So, I get a kick out of working with the media.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
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I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.
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When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
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What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
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We were too light, Electra. Now our feet press down in the earth like the wheels of a cart in its groove. Come with me, and we will walk heavily, bending under the weight of our heavy load.
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I think there's a fear once things start to blow up - as the people say - that if you stop for a second, it will all go away.
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I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.
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Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
