Bill Press Quotes
And, most disappointing of all, Obama turned out to be a cautious, hesitant, almost timid chief executive, not the dynamic, bold, fearless leader we were all counting on.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
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Whether people choose to have same sex relationships or relationships outside the marriage - whatever happens between two consenting adults should be purely their business, not the state's or the society's.
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I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to someone rich.
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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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I think in any profession, in general, you always imagine yourself at the top of it. And I'm not trying to say I'm at the top of my profession, but I've seen what the top people do and what the top people live like. And that's definitely something I want to be a part of.
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Justice is one of the core elements towards reconciliation and sustainable peace.
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I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
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This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
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And, most disappointing of all, Obama turned out to be a cautious, hesitant, almost timid chief executive, not the dynamic, bold, fearless leader we were all counting on.
