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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Slice Mango - something that, you know, is a phenomenal drink, but mango is not a flavour that is easily liked by many people in the West. People in Latin America like it. But we do a lot of Mango in India.
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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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The essence of trauma is that it is overwhelming, unbelievable, and unbearable. Each patient demands that we suspend our sense of what is normal and accept that we are dealing with a dual reality: the reality of a relatively secure and predictable present that lives side by side with a ruinous, ever-present past.
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When you're living in the bush as a child, there's no television or no telephone, there's no neighbours and there's no talk much between people so you do, I suppose, develop to be more an individualist than probably you would now.
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All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.
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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.
