Bret Stephens Quotes
Please spare us the self-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living with your parents.
Quotes to Explore
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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The fact that we walked away from the Middle East, as distasteful as it was for us to stay involved and prevent wars, based on our long involvement there, we have helped to create and provide a foundation. Obviously for ISIS and also for the absolute barbarianism and human catastrophe that Assad impacted on his people.
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I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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I get bored easily.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
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Coming from a family where the parents had been together for 40 years, you never imagine that divorce is going to happen to you.
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An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.
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Please spare us the self-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living with your parents.
