Bret Stephens Quotes
When you work at 'The Wall Street Journal,' the coins of the realm are truth and trust - the latter flowing exclusively from the former.

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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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It seems like whenever you write about Muslims, people assume that you're writing about the Quran, you are writing about the Prophet Muhammad. There's no sense that Muslims are capable of individualism, that they're capable of making mistakes that are somehow not connected to Islam.
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I assisted at the birth of that most significant word 'flirtation,' which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.
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When I work with new girls, I talk their ear off and try to make them as comfortable as possible because I remember what it was like when I first started.
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When you work at 'The Wall Street Journal,' the coins of the realm are truth and trust - the latter flowing exclusively from the former.