Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes
With its declining population, with people moving out of the Far East, with an enormously powerful China in the east, I think the real destiny of Russia is to become closer to the West.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.
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I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
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I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.
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I always wanted them to look like Hollywood movies; I just didn't know how to do it.
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No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
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We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of its evidences; and which, in the doctrine of immortality, invests the mind of man with a portion of the dignity of Divine intelligence.
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The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.
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It was a wonderful opportunity. And so for two and a half years we lived with Bernard Leach.
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With its declining population, with people moving out of the Far East, with an enormously powerful China in the east, I think the real destiny of Russia is to become closer to the West.
