Daniel Drezner Quotes
Some international relations scholars would posit that interest in zombies is an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously referred to as the "unknown knowns" in international security. Perhaps, however, there also exists a genuine but publicly unacknowledged fear of the dead rising from the grave and feasting upon the entrails of the living.
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Decision – making is very scary for me.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
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I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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So this is the only TV show in America where I am quite confident that you, the audience, will share my excitement when I tell you that coming up in our next segment, we have the best graph ever. Best graph ever.
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How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away.
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I ate two waffles, a banana and cereal with blueberries. And that whas between my two breakfasts.
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Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.
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The government's assertion that it must be unhindered in protecting our security can camouflage the desire to increase Executive power, while the press's cry of the public's right to know can mask a quest for competitive advantage or a hidden animus. Neither the need to protect our security nor the public's right to know is a blank check.
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Some international relations scholars would posit that interest in zombies is an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously referred to as the "unknown knowns" in international security. Perhaps, however, there also exists a genuine but publicly unacknowledged fear of the dead rising from the grave and feasting upon the entrails of the living.
