Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes
We defended our allies in Europe for 40 years during the worst days of the Cold War - very threatening days of the Cold War - and nothing happened. So deterrence does work.
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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I sort of spend every moment that I'm not working doing things with my son. You do the best you can, and you make the most of the time you have.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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Looking back, when I was Gollum, I suppose I did break the mold to a certain extent. I'm proud, and very thrilled, to be a part of that.
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A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.
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We defended our allies in Europe for 40 years during the worst days of the Cold War - very threatening days of the Cold War - and nothing happened. So deterrence does work.
