Robert Zoellick Quotes
The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
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Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.
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Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
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The thing about performance, even if it’s only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
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We must live fully in order to secrete the substance of our work, but we have to work alone.
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Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
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There's actually 14 in our family, but we disowned the others.
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In a world where I have to hide my heart and what I believe in. But somehow I will show the world what's inside.
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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.
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As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.
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In this country we have a very clear tradition by which people are fully entitled to engage in all kinds of peaceful, sometimes very noisy, protest,
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The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time
