Michael Mandelbaum Quotes
The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.
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I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring.
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My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.
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I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.
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Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'
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A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
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This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.
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Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.
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The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.
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A sleeping bear had been awoken.
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There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.
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The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.
