Ian Bremmer Quotes
Sometimes you check things off because you've done them. If you aren't checking stuff off your bucket list, you aren't living very well.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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Once I began college, I was committed to writing, which I think is different from saying I wanted to become a writer. I knew I would always write; I just wasn't always sure how I would go about doing so.
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It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
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I'm done in this business, that's for sure.
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So many people appreciate what you've done, the doors you've opened, but some people realise they're not going to be able to make as much money as they thought possible when you first started.
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There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.
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Sometimes you check things off because you've done them. If you aren't checking stuff off your bucket list, you aren't living very well.
