Robert Zoellick Quotes
All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.
Quotes to Explore
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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You can over analyze anything. I constantly have to tell myself, 'Sabrina, stop thinking.' There are people who are just analytical. It's part of your gene makeup, or too much caffeine.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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I'm just a down-to-earth guy.
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'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!
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I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.
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It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
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I always root for the defense.
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Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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I think you should not limit yourself to dating somebody older or younger.
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I thank those people that thought I had lost the agility to play shortstop, because they gave me more motivation.
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Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can be made by breath; plus a big hat-which comparatively few Texans wear.
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The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.
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I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.
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All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.
