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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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.
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I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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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 think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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I trust microphones, speakers and recordings less and less, and no longer buy into the idea that I can recreate at home, or in my earphones, the experience of hearing live acoustic instruments. The orchestra is already a set of speakers that react differently to each player, each room and each concert - it's that high level of uncertainly and unrepeatability that I like. The music is just soaked into the walls of a room straight from the instruments - and it's a one-off deal. The alternative - left speaker, right speaker - is kind of a compromise.
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But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty.
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More money and more business baby!
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Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.
