Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes
The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.
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Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.
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'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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New Year's Day probably is not going to work. And one of the main reasons it's not going to work is that the Rose Bowl is on New Year's Day, and it's not moving.
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Adlai Stevenson, himself a notable speaker, often reminisced about his last meeting with Churchill. I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style. Churchill replied, "It was an American statesman who inspired me and taught me how to use every note of the human voice like an organ." Winston then to my amazement started to quote long excerpts from Bourke Cockran's speeches of 60 years before. "He was my model," Churchill said. "I learned from him how to hold thousands in thrall."
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I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.
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It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.
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I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.
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The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.
