Walter Laqueur Quotes
The success of a terrorist operation depends almost entirely on the amount of publicity it receives.
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For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.
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People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.
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I like to race, not to do laps alone.
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I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.
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Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.
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The young are going to be the messengers of this continued strengthening of the diversity in America.
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American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil.
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I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.
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Life is about where you are right now, and the choices you make.
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The president knows what he did was wrong. He's admitted it. He's suffered privately and publicly ... But, Mr. Chairman, the president has not committed a high crime or misdemeanor ... His conduct, although morally reprehensible, does not warrant impeachment.
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I like southern girls. They talk so slow that by the time they say no, I made it already.
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You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
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There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.
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Sometimes you come to a fall and sometimes you come to white water. Your rowing has to adapt to the situation. You can't do the same stroke coming down a small stream as you would coming down Niagara Falls. Even if you're only rowing down a stream, different things happen: maybe the wind changes, maybe the current, and suddenly everything's different. So gently is really important. Don't power yourself or blast through; rock with the way things are.
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If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.
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You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.
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I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.
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Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution
