Daniel Fried Quotes
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
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I make all my decisions on intuition.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
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To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.
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I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
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For a long time, I have waited for the opportunity to fight Mr. Roy Jones. This is my personal goal and dream.
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Each game we make, we like to introduce an emotion that is rarely experienced by gamers in the console game industry.
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One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?
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I was 15 when I read the script for 'Earth to Echo.' I thought it was amazing, and I couldn't think of turning it down. It's awesome for a kid from Brooklyn to have an opportunity to be on the big screen. And I had a great experience learning what the movie business is like. So, I'm glad I did it.
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I was just obsessed with soul singers who had these big powerful voices. I used to listen to Aretha, Whitney, Mariah and try and imitate them, note for note and riff for riff.
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Life in zero gravity is hard to simulate. We practice on the ground what we call 'the day in the life' simulations, but it's just practicing some of the tests. It can't prepare you for the fact that all of your tools float if you don't pay attention to where they are! If you don't Velcro things down, they're gonna float away.
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I can't figure women out. They put on makeup for three hours. They wear things that make them smaller. Things that make them bigger. Then they meet a man and they want truth.
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There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
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We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.
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We have found that the Ministry of Defence was slow in responding to the threat of improvised explosive devices and that delays in providing adequate medium-weight protected patrol vehicles should not have been tolerated.
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Partisanship is not part of my professional makeup.
