George F. Kennan Quotes
A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.
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I like the concept of teenagers and philosophy.
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The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms.
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Loneliness is, like, when you wish someone else was there, and solitude is when you enjoy being alone. I don't always wanna be alone, but I definitely like pockets of solitude to recharge and come back to myself. I think that's so important for everyone.
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Some skaters, they live for skating, and they are home-schooled. I'm very lucky my parents let me go to school and have a normal life.
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A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.
