Yaroslav Trofimov Quotes
Well, it's a problem in general with the American military. If you are the biggest and the strongest military power in the world, you have this natural reluctance to learn the quirky ways of the natives in faraway lands.Yaroslav Trofimov
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
Naguib Mahfouz -
Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
Samantha Bee -
The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Karen Salmansohn -
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
E. L. Konigsburg
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The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
Ralph G. Neas -
For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
Daniel Alarcon -
I'm the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
Mallory Jansen -
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke -
The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.
J. William Fulbright
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I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
Lance Reddick -
I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.
Callan McAuliffe -
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai -
It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
Aaron Klug -
If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
Wendell Berry
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Greatness knows itself.
William Shakespeare -
You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before.
Andreas Katsulas -
There is a certain head, and that head you have not. Now this being so, there is a head which you have not; therefore, you are without a head.
Chrysippus -
The beauty of Judaism is that it demands we ask questions, especially of ourselves.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
When my turn comes I propose to take my lethal capsule comfortably in bed at home and preferably on my own.
P. D. James -
Well, it's a problem in general with the American military. If you are the biggest and the strongest military power in the world, you have this natural reluctance to learn the quirky ways of the natives in faraway lands.
Yaroslav Trofimov