Mickey Drexler Quotes
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
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Every time you get something, give something away.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
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People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
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The thing I want to see before I die is women achieving full equality in the world. I'm very passionate about injustice against women and there's too much of it in the world. In so many parts of the world, women are not regarded as worthy or equal to men. In parts of the world, women are bought and sold.
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I would always treat my attacking game as the more natural part. With defence, you have to get yourself in positions to understand the game and understand situations and that might not be as natural a thing.
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The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.
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You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.
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What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence.
