Joseph Nye Quotes
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.
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You can't take good health for granted.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
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I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!
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We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
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Design is the Zeppo Marx of management disciplines - the one that everyone seems to forget.
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See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.
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Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.
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Making products that we sell around the world stamped with three proud words: Made in the USA.
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For all the dreams we've dreamed And all the songs we've sung And all the hopes we've held And all the flags we've hung, The millions who have nothing for our pay - Except the dream that's almost dead today.
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If all the 300 (top civil servants and political elite) were to crash in one jumbo jet, then Singapore will disintegrate.
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I was lucky enough to attend schools where they were understanding about when I needed to go abroad to play chess. Of course, socially it is important to go to school and interact with people your own age.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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No progress, either moral or material, can be made in a world which is frozen, like ours, into a rigid mold of suppression of liberties.
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All I ever wanted to do is to paint sunlight on the side of a wall.
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Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.
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Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.
