Bret Stephens Quotes
Democrats should have learned in 2016 that what counts in American politics is location, not turnout.

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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.
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President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
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Facebook has never been merely a social platform. Rather, it exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does. Facebook does not exist to help us make friends, but to turn our network of connections, brand preferences and activities over time - our 'social graphs' - into money for others.
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It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
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American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
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Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.
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I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
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Democrats should have learned in 2016 that what counts in American politics is location, not turnout.