Ian Bremmer Quotes
In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.
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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I'm not a great one for looking back.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
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A lot of times, I'll get roles where it's the dumb blonde or the cheerleader, and I just have no interest - and it can be a great movie, it really can - or the mean girl; those things don't intrigue me much.
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This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
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I won the family lottery. I come from the best family in the world.
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Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.
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We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
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It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the United States.
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Anger cannot be overcome by anger. If someone is angry with you, and you show anger in return, the result is a disaster. On the other hand, if you control your anger and show its opposite - love, compassion, tolerance and patience - not only will you remain peaceful, but the other person's anger will also diminish.
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In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.
