John Bolton Quotes
Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.
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I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
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Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.
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We put water down into the earth to push up gas, then we say, 'Ooh, we're having a water crisis.' This is foolishness, and this kind of foolishness, where we try to excuse human behavior, is dangerous.
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There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.
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I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.
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By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
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I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
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At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.
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Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes.
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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This is the best job in television. I grew up watching the 'Today show.'
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Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.
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When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don't think about how hard it's going to be.
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I'm an optimistic person.
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Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what the Velvet Underground were doing.
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From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.
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There is always one or a few artists who appeal to all sort of people, and, of course, I want to be one of those people.
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I had the perm because I wanted wash-and-wear hair. I didn't want to be bothered with it.
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Death needs time for what it kills to grow in.
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To a writer, an open browser tab is like a glass of whiskey. 1 or 2 can help the work. Too many ensures that nothing gets done.
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Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.
