Richard N. Haass Quotes
Shockingly enough, what people say during campaigns is meant to increase the odds they get elected.
Quotes to Explore
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
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I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
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I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.
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Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.
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My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.
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The bottom line is 2018 should finally be the year where we see the early stages of broad-based commercial space tourism appear. Demand will certainly be driven by the early successes or failures of those missions, the marketing of those missions, as well as the propensity for tourists to become repeat flyers.
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Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.
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I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when it's time to do a book tour, I love that extroverted part, too - talking to people, reading, traveling, going out into the world.
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Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
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As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.
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Shockingly enough, what people say during campaigns is meant to increase the odds they get elected.
