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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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.
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I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.
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In the past I've always been the type of person to try and fit a square peg in a round hole. I can be very tenacious like that. But since I've had my daughter, I've found that I like the way life unfolds when I give the universe some space to guide me. It took me until my forties to realize that.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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In my culture we just say f**k off.
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Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.