Anthony H. Cordesman Quotes

America and its allies face many risks and problems in Iraq, but it is all too easy to snatch defeat from the jaws of uncertainty.

Anthony H. Cordesman

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• I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.

  

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• So when I'm working out I do things extreme.

  

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• Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.

  

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• Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.

  

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• I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.

  

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• It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

  

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• Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.

  

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• This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

  

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• America and its allies face many risks and problems in Iraq, but it is all too easy to snatch defeat from the jaws of uncertainty.

  

  Anthony H. Cordesman
  • America
  • Risks
  • Uncertainty