Ian Bremmer Quotes
In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the people have a chance.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home.
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China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd just bus people in from another province, you know what I mean? They're very self-contained.
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I'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.
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We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music.
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In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the people have a chance.
