Fareed Zakaria Quotes
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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I have learned so much personally from wrestling, and it has really bled into my daily life.
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The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.
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I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; - Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. - You with the unpaid bill, Despair, - You, tiresome verse-reciter, Care, - I will pay you in the grave, - Death will listen to your stave.
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Carpe diem,” urges Robin Williams in one of the most memorable scenes of the 1989 film Dead Poets Society. “Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.” It’s incredibly important advice. It’s also somewhat self-contradictory. Seizing a day and seizing a lifetime are two entirely different endeavors.
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The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.
