Henry Kissinger Quotes
Realism in foreign policy is made up of a clear set of values, since difficult foreign policy decisions are often decided with the narrowest of majorities. Without any sense of what is right and wrong, one would drown in a flood of difficult and pragmatic decisions.Henry Kissinger
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
Adam Gopnik -
If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
Nate Silver -
Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
Sam Harris -
As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.
Hamza Yusuf -
If you will trust me with your vote, you can count on me to take those values to Washington.
Vance McAllister -
I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
H. P. Lovecraft
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If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'
Adam Carolla -
There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.
D. B. Sweeney -
One of women's greatest values is compassion.
Safak Pavey -
I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.
Garry Kasparov -
To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.
Beatrix of the Netherlands -
In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.
Anderson Cooper
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I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their values are actually universal and which aspects are very specific.
Andrew Solomon -
Words cannot convey the value of yoga - it has to be experienced.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
Allen Tate -
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.
Ben Nicholson -
Follow through with basic values, and remember to provide good customer service.
Craig Newmark -
I love being on the periphery with a group of people who have the same values that I do. People who don't get off on fame, who just like the process of making movies and thrive.
Kristen Stewart
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Keeping this facility Guantanamo prison open is contrary to our values. It undermines our standing in the world. It is viewed as a stain on our broader record of upholding the highest standards of rule of law.
Audie Cornish -
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
W. Somerset Maugham -
In my 20s, I wanted to be hot; now I want to be healthy.
Camila Alves -
The volume and impact of these pseudo-classifications is growing, ... inhibits the free flow of critical information.
Chris Shays -
Realism in foreign policy is made up of a clear set of values, since difficult foreign policy decisions are often decided with the narrowest of majorities. Without any sense of what is right and wrong, one would drown in a flood of difficult and pragmatic decisions.
Henry Kissinger