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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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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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.
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Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want.
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There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being.
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Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.
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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.
