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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Only the heelOf splendid steelShall stand secure on sliding fate,When golden navies weep their freight.
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I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.
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You gotta find that hook so everybody can grab on to it. So that you're true to the culture but, at the same time, how it relates to the larger tapestry.
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The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.
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I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.
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I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.
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Cop families have guns in their houses.
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When I began modelling in my late teens, I started to earn a lot of money very, very quickly, but I'd never been shown how to manage it properly.
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Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?
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Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.
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Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
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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.
