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

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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

• 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

• 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 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

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

  

  Boyd Holbrook
  • Country

• The facts are clear. Obamacare is failing the American people.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • People
  • American

• I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.

  

  Anna Gunn

• I've heard all my life how I'm too short or not big enough to play this game. It's nothing new.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Life
  • Game

• 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
  • Time
  • Picture

• Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me.

  

  Kevin Powers
  • People
  • School
  • Remember

• I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.

  

  Kevin P. Ryan
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Growing

• I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Thinking
  • Positive
  • Strategy

• If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? If I'm such a legend, then why do I sit at home for hours staring at the damned telephone, hoping it's out of order, even calling the operator asking her if she's sure it's not out of order?

  

  Judy Garland
  • Home
  • Lonely
  • Hours

• I felt like any individual's recovery was more important than the film I was making. And I actually felt that my presence was a form of witness that communicated to the people I was following that their lives mattered.

  

  Brian Lindstrom
  • People
  • Film
  • Witness

• To keep your he-man jaw muscles from smashing your precious teeth, the only set you have, the body evolved an automated braking system faster and more sophisticated than anything on a Lexus. The jaw knows its own strength. The faster and more recklessly you close your mouth, the less force the muscles are willing to apply.

  

  Mary Roach

• I love movies, I've always been interested in them, but I wanted to wait for the right time to start acting.

  

  Claudia Schiffer
  • Time
  • Movies

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

  

  H. W. Brands
  • Imperial relationships