Robert Zoellick Quotes
When I work with countries struggling to pay for budgets or finance trade deficits, I reflect on how Americans do not spend a moment considering the unique advantages of being able to issue bonds and print money freely.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
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After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
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It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
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A science fiction movie? I don't know. I think I have made one already... Chasing Amy. Because you go ask any lesbian, that'll never happen. Even if, and probably especially because, the dude is Ben fucking Affleck.
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I know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.
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Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it … is the aim of the aphorist
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Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.
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I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor.
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I'm the most awkward person in the world, but onstage, I'm completely fine. I could run around in a thong and not care.
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I've sort of heard that 'it' girl thing, but not really. Hearing it from a few people doesn't solidify it in my mind and I wouldn't know how to solidify that title. It's so elusive and what does it mean, I don't know?
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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
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Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.
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America has the best hand ever dealt to any country on this planet, ever. Yes, we have problems, but you travel around the world, you'll see we have it all.
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When I work with countries struggling to pay for budgets or finance trade deficits, I reflect on how Americans do not spend a moment considering the unique advantages of being able to issue bonds and print money freely.
