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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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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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 moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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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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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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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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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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With news, especially investigative pieces, you've got to be really smart and really lucky to be timely and to not get beaten by the big guys. You can't go head-to-head with the networks.
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I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.
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I like the idea of stopping mid-sentence, like Graham Greene.
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Democrats should have learned in 2016 that what counts in American politics is location, not turnout.
