Amitai Etzioni Quotes
Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.
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It's not my fault that people don't know me. I'm going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are.
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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
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Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.
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What we're also doing is helping police forces in terms of issues like procurement and IT, so that savings can be made in those areas which I think is the sort of thing that everybody is going to want us to be doing.
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I usually eat in my friend Tom Corcoran's place - the Siam Thai in Monkstown. I go there for a very large plate of beef in red wine sauce.
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But would it make things better if I let myself get down all the time?
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Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.
