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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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
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The worst thing you can do in a relationship, and what's really unattractive about it, is that people begin to limit each other.
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So that they can actually make it known to the American people before they vote what they're voting for.
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The anti-American policy is the one that keeps oil prices up. The way to do that is to help OPEC limit the amount of liquid fuel available.
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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.
