Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes
Arab nationalism, which tended to be until relatively recent somewhat secular in motivation, has now become increasingly religious and fundamentalist. And that makes it more pervasive, more difficult to deal with.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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The migration wave can be stopped.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
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Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
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God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.
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Arab nationalism, which tended to be until relatively recent somewhat secular in motivation, has now become increasingly religious and fundamentalist. And that makes it more pervasive, more difficult to deal with.
