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.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Nice
  • Strangers
  • Coming Up

• 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.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • People
  • Husband
  • Choice

• The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Satisfaction
  • Only
  • Mutual

• Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mind
  • You
  • Conflict

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Successful

• As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Family
  • Age
  • Heritage

• The 100m is never stressful.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Never
  • Stressful

• I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • World
  • Home
  • Discipline

• I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Want
  • Coach
  • Who

• 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.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • True
  • Day
  • Gold

• It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Fun
  • Learn
  • Lovely

• Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Mother
  • Way
  • Negative

• 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.

  

  Kevin Smith
  • Movie
  • Science
  • Lesbian

• I know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it … is the aim of the aphorist

  

  Clifton Fadiman

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Esposito
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Sister

• I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor.

  

  Matthew Desmond

• I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I'd read the school bulletin to the class, and I'd add activities and make stuff up. It was good, a good 10 minutes every morning.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• The problem with not saving is it can often mean you're - a crisis away from, as we've seen in some cases, living in your car or losing your home or - having your lights shut off.

  

  Derek Kilmer
  • Home
  • Car

• Not having a private life is hard.

  

  Amber Riley
  • Life

• I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the greatest writers ever, is Mark Twain. Yes, yes, yes. And Whitman, from whom the whole of 20th-century poetry sprung up. Whitman was the origin of things, someone with a completely different outlook. But I think that he's the father of the new wave in the world's poetry which to this very day is hitting the shore.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Father Thinking

• One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Saying
  • Starting

• I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • People
  • Life
  • Struggle

• 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.

  

  Robert Zoellick
  • Country
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