Richard Holbrooke Quotes
It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.
Quotes to Explore
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Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.
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Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
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We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
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Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.
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Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
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We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.
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It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.
