Jonathan Schell Quotes
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.
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Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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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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Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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The Chinese, on the other hand, were in the position of having an American military spy plane on a Chinese military base and they had their own internal problems to deal with. At first, the Chinese weren't all that belligerent. They were just stalling to get their own bureaucracy in line.
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Obviously, when you're up against somebody you don't like there's extra motivation, but I don't think any person going for an Olympic gold is going to put friendship first.
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Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.
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I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand.
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My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
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No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course.
