Ian Bremmer Quotes
Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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What I want you to take seriously is what we have to do for the youth.
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Many of the top-grossing movies of all time are science fiction.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every culture are welcomed here to create a new life for themselves and their families. And what do these people who enter into the American mainstream have in common? English, our shared common language.
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Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.
