Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes
In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence, America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but it is also likely to be the very last.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
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All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
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I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.
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To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
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We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
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What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
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The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.
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My connections to Broward are long, and they are deep, and I'm proud of them.
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To me, America is just another market.
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Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.
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Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
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People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.
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If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.
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Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society.
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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
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What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say?
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In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence, America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but it is also likely to be the very last.
