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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I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.
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Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.
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The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It’s to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won’t deliver it.
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I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.
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Dreams do come true for those who never give up.
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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.
