Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?'
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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
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It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
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I hate sport. I like girlie things.
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For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
