Zalmay Khalilzad Quotes
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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I knew I was going to be somebody.
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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.
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I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
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I love going to second-hand stores.
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I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
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Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?
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Every religion there's something foul going on.
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The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.
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I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.
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On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
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Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
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I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.
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I'm always up for going back to the stage.
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Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.
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A broad trend I'm completely obsessed with is mobile commerce. Like completely. I'm completely convinced that everybody's going to be buying from their mobile devices. Whoever can claim that space or be in that space, I'm very interested in.
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Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.
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I want to do things that terrify me, unless they're going to kill me.
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One demonstrable effect this type of work can have is in its viral promulgation. Take Kathy Acker for example: her work exists mainly through academic channels. Students are exposed to her novels, and some read her, then, on their own, but some also go to grad school: teach her, write about her, keep her going.
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The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
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We are not going to abandon Iraq.
