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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
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What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy and how much we’ve grown as people.
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I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.
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When you're short on sleep, you're short on patience. You're ruder to people, less tolerant, less understanding. It's harder to relate and to pay attention for sustained periods of time.
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When I first discovered for myself the Celtic Twilight and read the earlier poems of Yeats and others, all was entirely incomprehensible to me. I groped through a mist of blurred meanings, stumbled through lines in which every accent seemed to be in the wrong place.
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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.
