Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

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• Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Girl
  • Person
  • Wooing

• Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Leaders

• It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Simple
  • Sound
  • Digital

• When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Joy
  • Sorrow
  • Out

• Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • Government
  • Run
  • They Say

• I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • People
  • You
  • Support

• Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Important
  • Me
  • Shoes

• My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Father
  • Positive
  • Human

• I was in Minnesota, where I was born, and I did print ads and commercials. And that was always cool 'cause when you're little, you can only work two hours a day, and it changes.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Work
  • Day
  • Cool

• In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • American
  • America
  • Law

• I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Great
  • Mind

• Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Down
  • Parade
  • Runway

• I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Think
  • Past
  • Lie

• Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • People
  • Up
  • You

• The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Great
  • Know
  • Community

• I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Know
  • Nothing
  • Say

• From the standpoint of the world’s biota, global travel represents a radically new phenomenon and, at the same time, a replay of the very old. The drifting apart of the continents that Wegener deduced from the fossil record is now being reversed—another way in which humans are running geologic history backward and at high speed. Think of it as a souped-up version of plate tectonics, minus the plates. By transporting Asian species to North America, and North American species to Australia, and Australian species to Africa, and European species to Antarctica, we are, in effect, reassembling the world into one enormous supercontinent—what biologists sometimes refer to as the New Pangaea.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • History
  • Travel
  • Humans

• Women are complicated. We all know that.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Women
  • Know
  • Complicated

• Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Would

• I've always thought it would be fun to have a vegan campaign aimed at gays called "Don't be a Dairy Queen."

  

  Dan Mathews
  • Thought
  • Would
  • Vegan

• Reports of a hurricane are unfounded.

  

  Michael Fish
  • Reports
  • Hurricane
  • Unfounded

• We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Would
  • Push
  • Probability