Richard Holbrooke Quotes
Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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Gooseberries aren't just for creamy desserts and pies.
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The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that
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Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.
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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
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I couldn't meet his gaze. I stared at the table just behind him--the mess of cards on it, the lantern giving off its quiet glow. "When you gave me your shirt to wear that night, I could feel you. I could feel your essence." The world went still. We were standing only inches from each other, not touching. Outside, I could hear the faint murmur of the wind blowing through the trees. "What did it feel like?" he asked in a low voice. "Like...coming home," I admitted.
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Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
