Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.

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• I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.

  

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• Snobbery just inhibits you.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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• I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.

  

  Rachel Bloom
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• All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.

  

  Haley Bennett
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• We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.

  

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• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
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• To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
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• I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

  

  Laura Esquivel
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• I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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  • Sit

• If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Men
  • Fun
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• Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.

  

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• I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.

  

  Yohan Blake
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• I did feel pressure to look a certain way on 'Hollyoaks.' But I just had to stay strong and not let myself get into a state of mind that isn't healthy.

  

  Hannah Tointon
  • Mind
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• If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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  • Travel

• My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

  

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• A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

  

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• We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.

  

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• He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

  

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• As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."

  

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• I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

  

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• Johnny Depp gave me the best advice. He said, 'Keep your feet on the ground. Stay grounded. Remember where you came from.'

  

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• Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

  

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• I take a multivitamin, vitamin D, and omega-3 oils every day, and if I'm stressed or run- down, I bulk up on vitamin C and zinc.

  

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• I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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