Fareed Zakaria Quotes
Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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Good argument is intended to persuade another.
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.
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I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know?
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I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.
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We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
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In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.
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I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
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The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art... in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it.
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I was at the radio station all the time and on the air all the time. I met John Travolta and a lot of the other big '70s icons. Shaun Cassidy sang 'Da Do Ron Ron' to me onstage. I thought I was a rock star; I had an all-access-pass childhood.
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They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.
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Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?
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I don't like the crowds, I don't like to get out of the house if I don't have to.
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Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.