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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Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
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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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The power of emotions as drivers of behaviour, especially when survival is perceived as being at stake, needs to be recognised and taken into account at all levels of society and governance.
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Hell, that's why they make erasers.
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The devotion of the BVB Army, with its very big online presence, is amazing. We've been fortunate from the very beginning. It was something that was really able to spur on our career.
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As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.
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When I'm not longer rappin', I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.
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I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.
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You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.
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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
