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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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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Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.
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OK, number one. There, as I know of, there is no such thing as skin bleaching... I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK? But, when people make up stories that I don't want to be who I am, it hurts me. It's a problem for me, I can't control it.
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See, we started out with a foundation of blues. But then we added people like Miles Davis and John Coltrane to the mix and gave rock n' roll a much more complex structure. It made it possible to play more than three chords.
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There are still many writers out in the Bay, extraordinary writers like Gina Valdez, a poet who I just saw in Portland. We have young people like Eduardo Corral, who won the Yale Younger Poets Award. José Antonio Rodriguez, published by Luis Rodriguez. But there are only a few of us who are paid attention to in New York. There are legions behind us who are not.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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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.
