Javier Solana Quotes
I wish you every success in your new responsibilities, in which you can always count on the full support of the European Union.
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.
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Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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Different times need different types of leadership.
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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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I have been helped over and over by wonderful men and women in my career. Men help each other all the time, and that kind of inclusion among women can create similar success.
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I wish you every success in your new responsibilities, in which you can always count on the full support of the European Union.
