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 had been one of the earliest social media adopters, driven by a mix of curiosity and enthusiasm for the way in which it levels borders and connects people who couldn't really have connected otherwise.
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For some reason, I struggle seeing myself as a leading man.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to.
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I grew up on a farm in eastern Tennessee with a very southern lifestyle, so my roots are super country and southern, but my first concert was Britney Spears. I think that you can hear both of those influences in my music.
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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.
