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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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
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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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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
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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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We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment.
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Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens when such an attempt fail to achieve the object? It is here that soul-force has to be combined with physical force so as not to remain at the mercy of tyrannical and ruthless enemy.
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We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations and we are ending a war not with a final battle but with a final march toward home. This is an extraordinary achievement
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.
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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.
