Juan Cole Quotes

Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

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• I think all politicians lie.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Think
  • Lie
  • Politicians

• I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Great
  • Pleasure
  • Plants

• People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Want
  • Need

• 'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Die
  • Nice
  • Ring

• All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Done
  • Beginning
  • Successful

• I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.

  

  M.I.A.
  • America
  • You
  • Years

• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Wealth

• I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Long
  • Man

• I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Different
  • Always
  • Looking

• I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Me

• The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Live
  • Man
  • Proud

• Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Organization
  • Research

• I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Think
  • Way
  • Thought

• We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

  

  O. Henry
  • May
  • Environmental
  • Weather

• The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Practice

• All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Political

• I'm John McEnroe-like. I'm coming forward every opportunity I get. My wingspan covers some ground at the net. My serve is OK. I can move it around enough. My groundstrokes are good enough to hang in a rally with a good player. But generally, my goal is to put away a point quickly.

  

  Matt Kuchar
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Player

• Ever since I was really little, I started doing a - I don't know how to put this - mentally challenged person on my street. I meant no harm by it, but I remembered how this person talked, and I did it for my mom, and she was not into it. She said, 'You can't do that!' But my dad really laughed.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • She
  • Dad
  • Mom

• About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Life
  • Think
  • Know

• In Morocco, a Muslim country, I got to hear the call to prayer five times a day. At first it felt kind of scary, kind of dangerous, because of the propaganda towards anything Muslim in the U.S. subconsciously coming out in me. By the end of the trip, it was so beautiful, and then not hearing it when I got back to L.A. really threw me off.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Prayer

• I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Country

• Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

  

  Juan Cole
  • Country
  • Tricky
  • Administered