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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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
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With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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A curious paradox: people have only the narrowest private interest in mind when they act, yet they are at the same time more than ever determined in their behavior by the instincts of the mass. ... The diversity of individual goals is immaterial in face of the identity of the determining forces.
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When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.
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I write my columns pretty carefully.
