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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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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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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I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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Never explain, never complain.
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It ain't the heat, it's the humility.
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There's different kinds of improv. There's Second City improv where you try to slowly build a nice sketch. There's stuff you do in college coffee houses where you just go joke, joke, joke. Bring another funny character with a funny hat on his head. Christopher Guest is more the line of trying to get a story out.
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I write my columns pretty carefully.
