Lawrence Eagleburger Quotes
The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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I hate celebrities.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
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In 1956, the success of the Hammer films kick-started my career. That immediately gave me a name and a face to go with it. I will always be grateful to Hammer for that.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.
