Bret Stephens Quotes
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.
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Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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The health benefits of paid sick days policies are obvious. They prevent the spread of disease. But the impact is wider. If a working mom or dad loses a job because of sickness, the family may slip into poverty.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.
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The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
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I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.
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I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks.
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What potent blood hath modest May!
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I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.
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I think there is a very powerful wish that we all have of being self-contained and having sort of opted out or choosing to remove ourselves from society and to have no ties and no obligations, and even no possessions. To be free in a particular way.
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Free trade was once a Republican conviction.
