Bret Stephens Quotes
Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor.
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I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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You can't choose up sides on a round world.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
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Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.
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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
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Creative industries are more important than the car industry, luxury jewels, and fashion.
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The fight against terrorism is something very real and practical for us. This is a fight to preserve our territorial integrity, and in this sense we need to have the instruments and create an environment in Russia that would make it impossible for the international terrorist organisations to achieve the aims they have set for themselves here.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor.
