Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes
The terrorists exist, and I think we must speak to them, not to establish a dialogue-since for serious terrorists that is unfortunately out of the question - but to learn how their brains work, to be better able to fight them.
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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I think I can help others just by my example.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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I'm proud to be part of the resistance.
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How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
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We got off to a little bit of a slow start but now we're playing good basketball, ... It's important that we keep it going and put ourselves in a good position for the playoffs.
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The terrorists exist, and I think we must speak to them, not to establish a dialogue-since for serious terrorists that is unfortunately out of the question - but to learn how their brains work, to be better able to fight them.
