Ian Bremmer Quotes
State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain.
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!
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A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.
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Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.
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The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.
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State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain.
