Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes
The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.
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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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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
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I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.
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Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
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Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.
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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
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The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.
