Bret Stephens Quotes
I get if you're a conservative, and you're saying, I don't know, 'Government shouldn't be mandating what's taught in classrooms,' or, 'Government is too intrusive in our economic life,' well, that's standard conservatism.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I never left doo wop.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
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In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats.
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Besides what have poets, in any case, to do with sin? They must dance before the Ark of the Covenant or die! But what am I trying to say?
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When you meet your best friend in real life, or you meet your soulmate, you just know it, and you feel it.
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I am an originalist, to begin with. So, I am a constitutional conservative. I believe that the Constitution enshrines some universal ideals that make our country strong and that are consistent with truth, and so that's the basic thing.
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I never think of a project as just being comedy or just being drama - even with 'Masters of Sex.' I like being sort of messy, like life is.
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I get if you're a conservative, and you're saying, I don't know, 'Government shouldn't be mandating what's taught in classrooms,' or, 'Government is too intrusive in our economic life,' well, that's standard conservatism.
