H. W. Brands Quotes
In imperial relationships, getting out proves much more complicated than getting in.
H. W. Brands
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That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.
Harri Holkeri
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When someone calls you 'gay,' there's not much you can do about that because I am. Whereas, if someone calls you fat, there is something you can do about that.
Sam Smith
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It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.
Ma Jian
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I've had every known chemical-cocaine, booze-and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke!
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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A tropical Mussolini
Carlos Fuentes
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If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being done, then I have not the slightest doubt that I could govern much more effectively in their interests.
Lee Kuan Yew
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Man is as much a slave to his immediate surroundings now as he was when he lived in tree-huts. Give him the highest, the most exciting thoughts about man's place in the universe, the meaning of history; they can all be snuffed out in a moment if he wants his dinner, or feels irritated by a child squalling on a bus. He is bound by pettiness.
Colin Wilson
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A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
Albert Einstein
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I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day goes by that I don't think about Sam Cooke. His presence is so strong and so convincing to me, a true artist, a true talent, who never talked down to people.
Robert Dwayne Womack
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I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?
Pauly Shore
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Humanity does not come with citizenship or a green card.
Joe Kennedy III
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I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.
James Patterson
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Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.
Dario Argento
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All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists in bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.
Lin Yutang
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I've done a bunch of consulting; I've actually spent time in Singapore, England, Denmark, all over.
David Cohen
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Whether youre president or speaker, if youre wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. Thats what Martin Luther King had talked about: being judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. So some of us pounded away on some of the ridiculous policies of Pelosi - and lo and behold, over time, the public began to see.
Louie Gohmert
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Whoever is not made glorified by taqwa can find no glory.
Al-Shafi‘i
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In imperial relationships, getting out proves much more complicated than getting in.
H. W. Brands
