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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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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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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I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.
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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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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.
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When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.
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True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.
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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.
