John Negroponte Quotes
Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.
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I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.
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John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.
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I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.
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If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.
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What I always meant by that was that I do believe that a lot of directors, and writers, and sometimes producers just lose their edge because they haven't seen anybody or talked to anybody or been with anybody who isn't a kind of replica of themselves for a long period of time.
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Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.
