Joseph Nye Quotes

Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.

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• I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Face
  • Changing

• 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.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Truth
  • Giving
  • Now

• For the first time I'm free to be myself.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Time
  • Free
  • Myself

• The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Up
  • God
  • Eye

• 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.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • People
  • Movie
  • Know

• All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Important
  • Success
  • Bridge

• 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.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• You can't take good health for granted.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Good
  • Health
  • Good Health

• I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Together
  • Band
  • Year

• 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.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Time
  • World
  • Envy

• I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Up
  • Like
  • Thought

• But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • School
  • Sex
  • Movies

• 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.'

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • History
  • Political
  • Dark

• I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!

  

  Carla Hall
  • Believe
  • Universe
  • Mistakes

• 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.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • American
  • Dream
  • Rest

• Design is the Zeppo Marx of management disciplines - the one that everyone seems to forget.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Design
  • Forget
  • Management

• 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.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Money
  • You
  • Imagination

• Making products that we sell around the world stamped with three proud words: Made in the USA.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Words
  • Proud

• I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • People
  • School
  • Cool

• I'm not cynical. I cry at 'ET.' And 'Kung Fu Panda!'

  

  Pilou Asbaek

• Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.

  

  Joseph Nye
  • School
  • Power
  • Democracy