David E. Bonior Quotes
China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade. They don't have any compliance, they don't have any enforcement.
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I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.
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I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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When you're starting a new business, you don't need to know much about it. A lot of the work is blocking and tackling - it's the same type of stuff no matter what sector you're in.
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I'm not a great one for looking back.
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Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
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I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.
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I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
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I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.
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I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
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Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.
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For me, to be in a place where I'm on the 'favourite' list of top directors I like, that's being number one. There is no other definition to me. It's not money; it's not how many songs you're seen in or how many clothes you're changing in the film.
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Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
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The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in our treaties and statutes or of strict administrative regulations secured by diplomatic negotiations. I sincerely hope that we may continue to minimize the evils likely to arise from such immigration without unnecessary friction and by mutual concessions between self-respecting governments.
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Russia is probably one of the first countries to have been confronted with this problem of terrorism. It took some time before the international community realised the danger terrorism poses.
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Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.
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There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.
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China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade. They don't have any compliance, they don't have any enforcement.
