Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.

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• We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

  

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• It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

  

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• Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.

  

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• At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.

  

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• People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

  

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• There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
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• Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

  

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• A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

  

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• Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.

  

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• I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.

  

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• I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

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• We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.

  

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• When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.

  

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• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

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• To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

  

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• There's a reason publishers don't build on top of social platforms: publishers are an independent lot, and they naturally understand the value of owning your own domain. Publishers don't want to be beholden to the shifting sands of inscrutable platform policies.

  

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• It remains an incredible struggle for women in theater, and, in particular, playwrights and directors, to get their work seen and to not only get seen, but to get it to Broadway.

  

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• Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • American
  • History