Bret Stephens Quotes
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
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I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.
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I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.
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One of the big drivers for me is that health care is a very elitist system. As much as we try to make it free and democratic for all, the reality is that it's expensive and not all therapies are accessible to all people. So I have been very focused on making sure that we democratize genetic information so it's available to everyone.
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Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.
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This country is pretty amazing.
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I write my columns pretty carefully.
