Ivan Krastev Quotes
Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.
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I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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I think I played in Lambeau maybe 14, 15 times. I've played there a lot of times. It's in the teens, double digit. I've had success on that field, won and lost.
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I think a girl looks good when she wakes up with nothing on her face.
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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
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There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.
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But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.
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To many, perhaps to most people outside the small company of the great scholars, past and present, 'Celtic' of any sort is, nonetheless, a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come. … Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not so much a twilight of the gods as of the reason.
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I find I'm a good deal more of a socialist than I thought I was: maybe not technically, politically, so, but intrinsically, in my meanings.
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I love my wife. She had money when I didn't.
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I remember thinking, 'Downward dog' is so not a resting pose!' Now it actually can be.
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I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
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Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in 'experts'.
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I don't like being told someone's interpretation of something that I do.
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Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.
