Fareed Zakaria Quotes

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

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• I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Anything
  • Much
  • Pessimistic

• There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Life
  • World
  • Gifts

• My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Dream
  • Year
  • Jazz

• Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • World
  • Great
  • Freedom

• I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

  

  Ed Harris
  • Family
  • History
  • Problems

• I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.

  

  Randall Park
  • Want
  • Like
  • See

• I'm kind of a private person.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Private Person

• When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Day
  • Problems
  • Inspire

• I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Playing
  • Tennis
  • Eat

• I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

  

  Ferguson Jenkins
  • Love
  • Today
  • Black

• 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.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Choices
  • Son

• I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • History
  • Man
  • Blood

• Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • History
  • Growing

• We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Exist
  • Defeat
  • Possibilities

• I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Style

• I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Quality
  • Care
  • Loved

• If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Women
  • Done
  • Bridges

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.

  

  Daryl Hannah

• Water makes me feel at peace. In Corsica, I spend most of my time on the beaches or in the rivers. That's one reason I love it there so much. The water is so clean and fresh - you can drink it straight out of the rivers! This island is my secret garden.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
  • Peace
  • Water

• that isolation and defiance of the international community does not work, however fanciful individual nations may think that it can work.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Work
  • May
  • Community

• To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.

  

  Kelly Osbourne
  • Family
  • Rock
  • Shoes

• I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.

  

  Stu Jackson
  • Teaching
  • Coaching
  • Get Back

• When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • You
  • Powerful