Ian Lustick Quotes
International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.
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Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
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Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
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The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
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Being on Disney, a lot of young people look up to me.
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What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
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I'm not part of the friends-and-family club; I'm not part of the pay-to-play club; I'm not looking to get re-elected. I'm not looking to go to another office and fill my campaign coffers. I don't need any friends in Albany except the people of the state.
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To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
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Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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One thing I learned about Gordon Brown is you've got to have the strength to just get in there and take him on. When you first hear him spouting his statistics and boasting about his record, it can be quite intimidating. But over time, shadowing him, I just realised that a lot of it was rubbish; a lot of it was baloney.
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International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.
