John Negroponte Quotes
The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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It really bothers me when people say we live in a postracial America.
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Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.
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I'm never going to do something that I don't want to do, because I've been given the opportunity to not have to do that.
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I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like 'Bourne.'
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The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point.
