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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
  • Truth
  • Idea
  • Table

• My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Remember
  • Friend
  • Won

• 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
  • Gay
  • Fat

• 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
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Deep

• Now that man can fly through the air like a bird ... and swim in the sea like a fish, wouldn't it be wonderful if he could just walk the earth like a man?

  

  Jack Paar
  • Earth
  • Air
  • Sea

• I've got a couple of those Gossard Wonderbras. They are so brilliant, I swear, even I get cleavage with them.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Couple

• 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
  • World

• A tropical Mussolini

  

  Carlos Fuentes

• 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
  • Done
  • Doubt

• 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
  • History
  • Universe
  • Thoughts

• A movie about the past is not the same as the past.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Movie
  • Past

• A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Experience
  • Idea
  • Intuition

• 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
  • People
  • Why
  • True

• 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
  • Life
  • Moon

• Humanity does not come with citizenship or a green card.

  

  Joe Kennedy III
  • Humanity
  • Green

• 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
  • Life
  • School
  • Fun

• We've made it crystal clear to the American people what we're against. We need to talk about a couple of other things - what are we for?

  

  Bill Flores
  • People
  • American
  • Couple

• Anyone that I know who wants to work in these fields by the sweat of their brow, the bend of their back, picking lettuce and fruit, can do it. We don't want those jobs. Let's be real about that.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Work
  • Real

• It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • People
  • Live

• Netflix is in every country except China and North Korea.

  

  Boyd Holbrook
  • Country

• We take a lot of pictures with fans, and when they walk away, their parents say, 'Who was that?'

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Parents

• It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Wish

• In imperial relationships, getting out proves much more complicated than getting in.

  

  H. W. Brands
  • Imperial relationships