Javier Solana Quotes

I am confident that today NATO is not only becoming larger but also stronger, more cohesive and more coherent.

Javier Solana

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• Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.

  

  Harriet Van Horne
  • History
  • Thousand
  • Riding

• While the protection of speech is at the bedrock of our democracy, it's critical as a nation that we exercise our right every day - and that includes embracing and engaging with those we may not agree with.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • May
  • Day
  • Democracy

• After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Day

• There are always going to be critics... and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it's more important that you do what you think is right.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Bad

• Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Ambition
  • Bird
  • Intelligence

• I actually prefer Twitter as a medium, and I also got into Periscope for a second, but I'm still trying to figure out what to do with it. I can't figure out if the only important thing about it is the live broadcast, or if it's an interesting kind of way to log what you do.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Important
  • Live
  • Trying

• The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • Very
  • Felt
  • Upset

• I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh look! It's Anthony Quinn.' And I'm like, 'Hello? Kid just got a gold medal. Hello? I'm over here.'

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • School
  • High
  • Dad

• What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Life
  • Career
  • Rest

• I don't claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion.

  

  Babyface
  • Work
  • Great
  • Perfect

• Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Country
  • Bad
  • Hope

• Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Trying
  • Love

• Spain's constitution was introduced to cement democracy after Franco's dictatorship, but this government is exploiting its wording as a means to deny us our right to vote.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Vote

• I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Like
  • Confidence
  • Cocky

• I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Hard
  • Stuff
  • Very

• A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • People
  • Good
  • Age

• The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.

  

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
  • Technology
  • Discovered
  • Philosophers

• If you're waiting around for something to be handed to you or win the lottery, chances are nothing is ever going to go down, you know, so you got to make it happen on your own.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • Winning
  • Waiting
  • Chance

• I didn't worry about what DeNiro thought... I went in, looked him in the eye, and got the part. I was confident, even though I'd never done anything like it before. Now I realise it was ignorant confidence-I had no idea.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Done
  • Confidence
  • Worry

• I had a meeting of the North Atlantic Council this morning, and all the 19 ayes were absolutely like one country, ... Every country that belongs to NATO is behind the decision we have taken.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Country
  • Meeting
  • NATO

• Much better than it has been all week. I got sick again this week, so I wasn't really able to breathe. I was on antibiotics (until Wednesday). This program was so great coming here. I felt more confident than I ever have all season, more calm, more relaxed, bending the knees. So even that program with the one mistake ... you can't be perfect all the time, but for me that was a great skate for me and I'm happy with how it went.

  

  Gabrielle Daleman
  • Mistake
  • Season
  • Program

• I am confident that today NATO is not only becoming larger but also stronger, more cohesive and more coherent.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Confident
  • NATO
  • Coherent