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 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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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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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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A book is either autobiography or a novel.
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I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.
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Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.
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I'm never trying to break a career high out there.
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Being the one woman in the room should not be seen as a victory. If there's only one of us in the room, we're still a token; we don't actually have an empowered voice. If there's two of us, we're still a minority. If there's three, then we're allowed to have a multiplicity of opinions.
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I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.
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I am a frighteningly thorough person.
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Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I do?
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A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.
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Shockingly enough, what people say during campaigns is meant to increase the odds they get elected.
