Joseph Nye Quotes
Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.
Quotes to Explore
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
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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.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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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.
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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.
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I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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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.
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Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.
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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.
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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.
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All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.
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I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about..
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But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
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People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan.
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I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.
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Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.
