Frank Carlucci Quotes
It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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My personal story has always been about perseverance and always getting up when I fall. Maybe I'm not Olympic champion, but I can teach the world about that.
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The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.
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No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.
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When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
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There is a beginning and end to all life - and to all human endeavors. Species evolve and die off. Empires rise, then break apart. Businesses grow, then fold. There are no exceptions. I'm OK with all that. Yet it pains me to bear witness to the sixth great extinction, where we humans are directly responsible for the extirpation of so many wonderful creatures and invaluable indigenous cultures. It saddens me to observe the plight of our own species; we appear to be incapable of solving our problems.
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It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.
