Stephen M. Walt (Stephen Martin Walt) Quotes
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.
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I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.
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As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something very empowering about Lara Croft. She kicks butt and she does it in style. She's confident and she's educated.
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Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
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Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.
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Jose Mourinho and I get along well. I've lots of respect for him. He gives me a lot of confidence. After a bad game, he dares to say, 'We have played with 10 today,' but that's it. At moments like that, he leaves me alone.
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I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.
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No one can look bad when you've been lit for six hours.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.
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I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'
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I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
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But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.
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I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.
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I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say.
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My parents telling me that if there is a story you feel compelled to share, then you are responsible for doing that. You can't ask someone else to take on that story - or you can, but you have to deal with whatever the fallout is. If the story doesn't end up being told the way you originally heard it or that you feel it needs to be expressed, that's on you.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
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A human influenza pandemic will be a big problem. But by working together we can respond effectively.
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Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.
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Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked.
