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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When I was around 9 years old, I was watching TV one day. I was looking at this commercial, with a kid in the bathtub playing with a rubber ducky or something, and I said, 'Where do those kids come from? How come they get to be on TV? I could do that stuff.'
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If you have health insurance, then you don't have to do anything. If you've got health insurance through your employer, you can keep your health insurance, keep your choice of doctor, keep your plan.
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That's what fascinates me about these writers' retreats: You're in these small spaces with small groups of people, and all of the sudden, the spotlight is shining on you harder than it normally is.
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I'm not into 'Let's go out with one guy on a Monday and another guy on a Wednesday' - that's just not me.
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The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
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I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.
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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.
