Javier Solana Quotes
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I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.
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I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.
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I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.
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There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.
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The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.
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I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.
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Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.
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Every year, Planned Parenthood serves three million Americans - men and women - and one in five women will receive care at a Planned Parenthood clinic in her lifetime.
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Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.
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I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
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I see the universe as naturally and infinitely self-correcting.
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I do a lot of work with policymakers, but how much effect am I having? It’s like they’re coming in and saying to you, ‘I’m going to drive my car off a cliff. Should I or should I not wear a seatbelt?’ And you say, ‘I don’t think you should drive your car off the cliff.’ And they say, ‘No, no, that bit’s already been decided—the question is whether to wear a seatbelt.’ And you say, ‘Well, you might as well wear a seatbelt.’ And then they say, ‘We’ve consulted with policy expert Rory Stewart and he says . . . .’
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Will not tolerate a return to all-out fighting and a policy of repression in Kosovo.
