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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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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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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The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.
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When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
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No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
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Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when the United Nations was created in the wake of World War II, threats came almost exclusively from one state carrying out acts of aggression against another.
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I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.
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What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence.
