Fareed Zakaria Quotes
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
Olivier Martinez -
The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can... but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion.
Ed Rendell -
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
Ralph G. Neas -
Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
Nancy Gibbs -
I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
Damian Lewis
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Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.
Abraham Lincoln -
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Isaac Asimov -
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
A. J. Liebling -
I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.
Rami Malek -
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
Harold S. Geneen -
It's funny, because I've never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in 'American Gangster,' I'm playing an Italian. I've always been fortunate enough to have been allowed to play all these diverse roles.
Yul Vazquez
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I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
A. Scott Berg -
I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
Sam Brownback -
I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.
Fernando Alonso
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I've been watching 'American Idol' half my life, and I wanted to audition since I was 8.
Katie Stevens -
The field is the sole influence of the particle.
Albert Einstein -
There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.
H. L. Mencken -
I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
Samuel L. Jackson -
You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand -
American influence is not what it used to be.
Fareed Zakaria