Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes
As a youth, I was much more of a Zionist. But Israel was very different then. Israel's changed, and so have I.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
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Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.
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In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.
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When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.
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The silky hush of intimate things, fragrant with my fragrance, steal softly down, so loth to rob me of my last dear concealment.
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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I'm not the person who looks back or looks forward. I try to live in what is now.
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Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.
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A lot of MTV's programming is hip-hop based, and the messages are usually all about bling bling. A lot of hip-hop artists sing about stuff that's more important, but they seldom get heard. The ones who get heard are the ones saying, 'Think about yourself. Make your money. It's all you. Everybody have a good time and party.'
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I'd rather go to a place and spend a couple of months, get to know it, get to know the people.
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You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.
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Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative.
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There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.
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I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues.
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I don't think women are that vastly different from men. I'm a bit of a woman myself. But I'm not a feminist filmmaker. I'm not making a feminist thesis to prove that women are important. I just happen to make films with strong characters that are women.
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We have very similar brains. But they come out in different personalities.
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I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good.
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'Donde Estaras,' it is like a classic reggaeton, and we just added some Southern spice to bring it to 2018. But I wanted to go back to the roots of reggaeton, that type of reggaeton that makes you just feel good. You don't know what we are saying but that OK because 'Donde Estas' is where are you at but 'Donde Estaras' is where are you going to be.
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As a youth, I was much more of a Zionist. But Israel was very different then. Israel's changed, and so have I.
