Manolo Blahnik Quotes
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.
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There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.
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When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.
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It's a heck of a lot harder to stay on top than it is to get there.
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Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut.
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I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
