William Pfaff Quotes
The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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I've failed once or twice real big, independent.
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I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, but they still are super confident, and that's more what I've been attracted to is the confidence and the sense of humor.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what 'Show Boat' made possible.
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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
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I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
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And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.
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The tantra masters are simply wild flowers, they have everything in them.
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The essence of the desert is that you are free to create your own world, your own visionary reality. … Both Burning Man and the Internet make it possible to regather the tribe of mankind.
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No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
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All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.
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My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.
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Our culture has changed. It has become more violent. People are literally afraid to go to the movies or to school.
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I'm not going to marry a third time. It is just not necessary.
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Losing so many patients certainly was difficult, but it didn't make me feel like a failure as a physician, because I had learned that there was so much more to being a physician than curing illness. That's not the most important thing we do. The most important thing we do is enter into the suffering of others.
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The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.
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Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive. But if our critics are wrong and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in face of this menace, when we should have given leadership. That is something history will not forgive.
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Accept the priceless gift - the joy of work. Apply the greatest value in life: love people and serve them. You will attract big and generous portions of success.
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The more talented a young man is, the earlier the recruiting process usually begins.
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The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.
