Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes
This is a highly motivated, good country. It is driven by good motives. But it is also a country with an extremely simplistic understanding of world affairs, and with still a high confidence in America’s capacity to prevail, by force if necessary. (...) This is a country of good emotions, but poor knowledge and little sophistication about the world.Zbigniew Brzezinski
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
Garth Nix -
God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
Victoria Osteen -
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google to develop self-driving cars, but it helped them with street views for Google Maps.
Barry Ritholtz -
It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
Ted Shackelford -
I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
Walter Salles
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Dag Hammarskjold -
We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.
Yehuda Berg -
The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
Maajid Nawaz -
I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.
Wendy Higgins -
A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
Ze Frank
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I love poker!
Natalie Dormer -
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
Calvin Coolidge -
I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
Illeana Douglas -
Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.
Gary Johnson -
For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.
Aaron Rodgers
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The darkest day in life is the one in which we expect something for nothing.
Allen Shawn -
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
Gene Tierney -
Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.
Umar -
All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.
Alva Myrdal -
Prejudice and discrimination based on our differences is an unfortunate fact of life.
Bonnie Hammer -
This is a highly motivated, good country. It is driven by good motives. But it is also a country with an extremely simplistic understanding of world affairs, and with still a high confidence in America’s capacity to prevail, by force if necessary. (...) This is a country of good emotions, but poor knowledge and little sophistication about the world.
Zbigniew Brzezinski