Bret Stephens Quotes
A Trump presidency - neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration - would mark the collapse of the entire architecture of the U.S.-led post-World War II global order.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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Actors don't have real value.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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Nadal is one of the great champions - a class act.
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I wanted to be an endurance athlete from a young age. I remember being in a careers class at school and saying I wanted to be a professional athlete and the teacher replying, 'You're not going to make it; it's not possible.'
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A historic defeat cannot bow our heads forever.
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities... If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.
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Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.
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A Trump presidency - neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration - would mark the collapse of the entire architecture of the U.S.-led post-World War II global order.
