Daniel Barenboim Quotes
I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
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My own ultraviolet darling. " Lolita
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It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel.
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I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew.
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The American war-writing tradition is a proud one and booming in this era of the Global War on Terror - at least in the nonfiction realm. Hundreds of memoirs and press accounts from Iraq and Afghanistan have been published since 9/11.
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I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
