Robert Zoellick Quotes
In London, Washington, and Paris, people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is for food or no food.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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I was a campaign widow.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
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I don't really believe in evil at all.
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It's a Japanese way of thinking, that I give value for my merchandise. So I don't want to sell unnecessarily expensive dresses and make just 10 or 20 and then feel satisfied. I want to design for real women who can afford my dresses.
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A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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If we reject science, we reject the common man.
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America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.
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The manners thing's got worse. People think they can just text you if they've got bad news for you. It's not on. And as for people taking pictures at gigs on their phones, that's just weird.
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Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.
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In France, we respect women: we don't beat them; we don't ask them to hide themselves behind a veil as if they were impure.
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In London, Washington, and Paris, people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is for food or no food.
