Ian Lustick Quotes
Strong Islamist trends make a fundamentalist Palestine more likely than a small state under a secular government.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
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Oddly, a search for 'jeggings' in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from - wait for it - Mike Allen of 'Politico,' who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009.
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I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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I don't look for anybody to pay for health care for me and my family. That's my responsibility.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
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I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.
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Keep the team as small as possible. Having been on several of these mega-projects, they seem to grow magically. People are attracted to the project like moths to a flame.
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It's such a male-dominated industry. You can be a feminist, it's just difficult because it sometimes comes back at you.
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Strong Islamist trends make a fundamentalist Palestine more likely than a small state under a secular government.
