Stelios Haji-Ioannou Quotes
The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly.
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
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Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
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I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
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Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.
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The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
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I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I think he's amazing to work with, so I was super lucky.
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It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
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When I first arrived in America, the very first place I came was California, and I rented a house in Trance, which is about half an hour from Malibu.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
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Don't knock th' weather. Nine-tenths o' th' people couldn' start a conversation if it didn' change once in a while.
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Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.
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Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition of what a black person is. I'm mixed, yes, but in the world I'm defined as black before I'm defined white. I've never been called white.
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I think with all records, it's the starting out that is the difficult stage.
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The American people and the Israeli peoples share a faith in the future and believe that democracies can shape their own destinies and that opportunities should be available to all. Throughout its own extraordinary history, Israel has given life to that promise.
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What I believe is the more we can do for the middle class, the more we can invest in you, your education, your skills, your future, the better we will be off and the better we'll grow. That's the kind of economy I want us to see again.
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I didn't really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.
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The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly.
