Hans Blix Quotes
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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'Love Aaj Kal' is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
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The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.
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I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
