Richard Holbrooke Quotes
A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.
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Acting may be how I've made my living, but music has always been my passion.
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I can hang out with all my boyfriend's friends. I know how to roll with the guys.
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This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.
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To invest in countries that are pursuing policies that are harmful to global stability.
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A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.
