Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Quotes
The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash -
An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
Ian Rush -
I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
Gaspard Ulliel
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
Ian Somerhalder -
I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
Oriana Fallaci -
I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
Mac DeMarco -
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey -
I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
Youssou N'Dour
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
Isaac Asimov -
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro -
I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
S. T. Joshi -
Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
Adam McKay -
I've never been a calm, midrange type person.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
Imran Amed
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The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.
Damien Chazelle -
Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.
Olivia Wilde -
Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.
Max von Sydow -
... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.
Francis Bacon -
I didn't go to university; I hardly went to school, but I grew up among people well versed in Henry James and Proust, and just felt this endless, total inadequacy.
Emma Tennant -
The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita