Bret Stephens Quotes

Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.

Bret Stephens

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• If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Power
  • Miracle

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• 'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Kind
  • Film
  • Effect

• I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Wife

• The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Different
  • Challenges
  • Generation

• I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Opportunities
  • Hood

• I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Television

• Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Car

• If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Women
  • Change
  • Rules

• I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Season

• The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Friends
  • Freedom
  • September

• As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Country
  • War
  • Soul

• Globalization - and I think we share this conviction - is that globalization needs to be shaped politically. It needs to be given a human face. But we cannot allow to fall back into pre-globalization times. So this conclusion of trade agreements that go beyond the scope of mere tariff agreements, customs agreements, are most important.

  

  Angela Merkel
  • Important
  • Fall

• But the fight for our planet, physical and spiritual, a fight of cosmic proportions, is not a vague matter of the future; it has already started. The forces of Evil have begun their decisive offensive, you can feel their pressure, and yet your screens and publications ae full of prescribed smiles and raised glasses. What is the joy about?

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Future
  • Joy
  • Evil

• If you were just to look at Lockheed Martin, you'd see a lot of women in senior roles in our company and, not only that, our customers, so I don't consider it an old boys' club.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • Women
  • Senior

• I'm trying to go over my lines. I woke up on the floor, somebody had me in their arms. I didn't quite know who, people looked so unfamiliar. That's about all I remember.

  

  Dick York
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

  

  Phyllis Bottome
  • Truth

• I love my paper and ink, but I see the benefits of the iPad and Apple Pencil.

  

  Om Malik

• I play video games a lot... I love to read... I enjoy spending time with my husband and daughter, who are my most favorite people in the world.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• One of my favourite actresses is Kate Winslet. She plays strong female characters and seems like she has a strong political awareness. I really like Naomi Watts and Juliette Lewis.

  

  Emily Perkins
  • She
  • Political
  • Strong

• Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.

  

  Seymour Cray
  • System
  • Tricks

• Faith isn't about having everything figured out ahead of time; faith is about following the quiet voice of God without having everything figured out ahead of time.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Time
  • God
  • Faith

• A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Church
  • Circumstances
  • Conference

• Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.

  

  Bret Stephens