Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.

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• Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Life
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• There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
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• When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

  

  Sam Trammell
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• But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Life
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• The world is my workshop. It is not my home.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • World
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• For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Training
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• If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Voting

• In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Children
  • American
  • Christmas

• Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Nothing
  • Follow

• I had never seen 'Vogue.' I didn't read fashion magazines, I read 'Time' and 'Newsweek.'

  

  Iman
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• I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Never
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• In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Book
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• How is Maggie Rowe compensating for her decision to not have a child? Is what she is doing instead enough to justify that decision? What is she doing instead, and why can't she be better at it? What's keeping her from getting a better overall existence score in comparison to an arbitrary sampling of other human beings?

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Why
  • She
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• It's funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it's the dream, isn't it? It's the dream to have a true connection with another human being.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.

  

  Adam Arkin
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• Men are seizing on Jesus as the exponent of their own social convictions. They all claim him. ...But in truth Jesus was not a social reformer of the modern type... he approached these facts purely from the moral, and not from the economic or historical point of view.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Jesus

• The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God's enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God's true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • God
  • She
  • True

• Artists have long urged cultural introspection by creating work that forces awareness of our current political and economic landscape.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Work
  • Long
  • Political

• Cliff was a very smart guy, a reader, very eloquent. I just don't understand why he went, and not one of us.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
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• If you do something extraordinary for your customer you will never be forgotten. Customer service heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

  

  Eric Lander
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  • Customer

• Every day, every one of us sets the stage for our sentiment, our confidence, and our success by getting dressed. When you feel great, when you feel your best, it opens up a world of possibility. Feeling confident and self-assured are important inputs into good days, successful days, and happy days.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Up
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• I fully support President Bush's decision to strike Al Qaeda's terrorist network. Now more than ever, we must stand united as a nation and support our President and our military. It is important to remember that this carefully targeted response is not an attack on a religion, nor a nation, but an attack on terrorism. In Congress, we will continue to work with the White House to do what's needed to bring justice to those who committed the heinous and evil attacks of September 11.

  

  Tom Harkin
  • Important
  • House
  • Support

• The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski