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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... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.
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Everyone from the pope to some hobo thinks, "I'm a human being. What am I doing here?" You can't get carried away with fame and fortune and all that. It's all nonsense. The whole pop-star side of it is all fun and good, but you don't get anywhere without putting in the hours. I get so fulfilled when we play a song live that we spent hours working on. It's all cool. Fame is something to have fun with, but you shouldn't take it too seriously because it is bollocks.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.
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The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.
