Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.

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• I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Party
  • Creativity

• One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Realize

• Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Time
  • Great
  • Amazing

• As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Today
  • Health
  • Better

• Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here... If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for the structure and the backbone that I have, I wouldn't be able to mess up and keep coming back and sit in front of you as a world champion.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • World
  • Parents

• I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Work
  • Feels
  • Impression

• I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Understand

• My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Experience
  • You
  • Control

• Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Done
  • Character
  • Influence

• A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

  

  Oliver North
  • Fighting
  • Enemy
  • Win

• Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Time
  • Space
  • Present

• If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Gun
  • Background
  • Desk

• A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Music
  • Game

• Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Fun
  • End
  • Circumstance

• I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Back
  • Carry
  • Laptop

• So it's gonna be foreverOr it's gonna go down in flames.You can tell me when it's overIf the high was worth the pain.Got a long list of ex-lovers,They'll tell you I'm insane.'Cause you know I love the players,And you love the game.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Long
  • High
  • Game

• When I was a kid, and Elvis Presley broke through to a middle class, white audience, it was a sociological phenomenon that lasted through the Beatles and even a bit through Fleetwood Mac.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham

• With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay?

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Why
  • High
  • Death

• There are two options for any society: total prohibition as in a totalitarian state, or total license. Both avoid the ardours of decision. Both have the attraction of certainty. The difficult option is to decide where the line should be drawn and this, surely, is the responsiblity of any civilized and democratic country.

  

  P. D. James
  • Country
  • Society
  • Decision

• The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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