Fareed Zakaria Quotes
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up in the morning and it hits you, 'I won't ever see my brother again. I won't ever see my mom again.' And it just kind of hits you like that.
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I just like to shake things up, and your hair is one way to do it.
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I was so young when I got so famous, and then I kind of put up a wall around myself. I didn't really want to show people any fragilities or fears; I was trying to be this tough person that I felt was expected of me.
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All we can do is just think about what we can put into the world - not really kind of what we can get out of it.
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I think that liberals need to grow up.
