Richard N. Haass Quotes
We ought to be doing much more in North America. We are on the cusp of an energy revolution. And we do need to be doing more at home. The biggest national security threats facing the United States right now are not in the Middle East. They are domestic.
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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Even though I've danced with actors, it wasn't the same with NTR.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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My biggest hero was Roman Gabriel, who was the QB of the Rams, and Roger Staubach. Those were the two guys I tired to emulate when I was little.
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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.
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Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.
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People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.
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A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
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I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.
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If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
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Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's got to have that haziness to it.
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We ought to be doing much more in North America. We are on the cusp of an energy revolution. And we do need to be doing more at home. The biggest national security threats facing the United States right now are not in the Middle East. They are domestic.
