Fareed Zakaria Quotes
The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
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I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
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In America, public opinion is the leader.
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Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
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I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for so long - turned me into an observer. Actually, right after I got out of the hospital, I did start writing a novel, but the book was so transparently about me that I stopped.
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People complain that joking about serious subjects is 'making light' of them. Isn't that a good idea? Comedy lets the air out of the bully's tires.
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Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related.
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I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.
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Certain films, when shot digitally, the detail is like CG: you can't feel the sweat. I feel like digital is alienating. There's something superficial to digital compared to the richness of film.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
