Adam Garfinkle Quotes
Like an unexpected wet mop in the face of tired complacency, The Sovereignty Solution works on the receptive mind as a pry bar works on a tightly sealed box. Written with courage and passion, this is a book whose often counterintuitive clarity shakes entombed assumptions like an earthquake. Whether you end up convinced or not, you will never think about American national security the same way ever again.Adam Garfinkle
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
Caio Fonseca -
A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
Abbas Kiarostami -
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
Patrick Stewart -
My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
T Bone Burnett -
The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.
Adam Mansbach -
I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
Nancy Reagan
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson -
I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
Beau Bridges -
A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
Valentina Tereshkova -
It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.
Olly Murs -
If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
Yann Martel -
I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
Iggy Pop
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I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
Abraham Lincoln -
The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.
Wendell Berry -
It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort.
Charlie Pierce -
I went to drama school in the U.K., where we did endless Chekov plays.
Joe Anderson -
You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.
Louis Malle
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
The main character in the book is usually someone you're identifying with because the story is being told through this person's mind.
Jay Asher -
The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
Soren Kierkegaard -
I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations.
Charlotte Bronte -
I think it's great when people accuse me, almost always falsely, of promoting conspiracy theories, because that shows how effective I am at messaging and how effectively I can use social media.
Mike Cernovich -
Like an unexpected wet mop in the face of tired complacency, The Sovereignty Solution works on the receptive mind as a pry bar works on a tightly sealed box. Written with courage and passion, this is a book whose often counterintuitive clarity shakes entombed assumptions like an earthquake. Whether you end up convinced or not, you will never think about American national security the same way ever again.
Adam Garfinkle