Carroll Quigley Quotes
On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.
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There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.
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I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports... back in Edmonton, Alberta - I can't give those people enough credit - and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them.
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Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.
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When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
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Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind, from China to Peru.
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The obligation of every ethical management is to make sure we optimize the long-term value of the company.
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If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.
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Kids at a certain age don't necessarily want to be dragged to the other side of the world.
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People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.
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I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.
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No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.
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I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.
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Just because something is working today doesn't mean it will work forever.
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A swing is like a car. You've got the fan belt, carburetor, pistons, spark plugs, fuel pump. If any part isn't working, the car doesn't run. Same way with hitting.
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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Remind me of the place. The wind breathing through the trees and the sound of coconuts dropping on the mud. Ta-dup ta dup. The hairy mangrove crabs and the turtles. The evening sky looking like a big mash up rainbow with all these colors leaking down on the sea. The fresh smell of fish and sand in the mornings. Cascadura jumping up from the ponds like living clumps of mud. Dew skating down from the big dasheen leaves as if they playing with the sunlight. A horsewhip snake slipping down a guava branch as smooth as flowing water. Cassava pone and seamoss drinks.
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On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
