Joseph Nye Quotes
Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
Nan Fairbrother
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
Paddy Ashdown
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Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
Carl Forti
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
Natalia Makarova
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
Gail Porter
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
Carine Roitfeld
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
Barry Eisler
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
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I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.
Faith Ford
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
Xosha Roquemore
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
Edmond de Goncourt
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
T. E. Lawrence
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There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
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Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.
Laura Schlessinger
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
Victor Davis Hanson
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I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.
Zadie Smith
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All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.
T. E. Hulme
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
J. B. Pritzker
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When I started, I was 23 years old directing my own music videos; I'm co-producing on my album; I'm hands-on with everything. I'm more than just a pretty boy: I'm an artist. I'm not saying I'm a hip-hop music artist, I'm an artiste.
ASAP Rocky
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Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.
Joseph Nye