Anthony H. Cordesman Quotes
If you pull out troops too quickly now, and you see the situation in Iraq collapse before the midterm elections, the impact is going to be far more serious than if you keep the troops in at reasonable levels.
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Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
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I'm always forming bands.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
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I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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You're going to start seeing open-source, self-executing contracts gradually improve over time. What the Internet did to publishing, blockchain will do to about 160 different industries. It's crazy.
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The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.
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The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one take, because I'd plan ahead what I thought would be appropriate for that scene-so one take was enough.
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Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.
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Matthew Broderick and Megan Mullally were unbelievable to work with in 'How to Succeed.'
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After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.
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To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.
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I can't believe it hasn't happened yet. It's a shame and it's disappointing. I don't know what the problem is.
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One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.
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The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.
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I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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If you pull out troops too quickly now, and you see the situation in Iraq collapse before the midterm elections, the impact is going to be far more serious than if you keep the troops in at reasonable levels.
