April Glaspie Quotes

Obviously, I didn't think, and nobody else did, that the Iraqis were going to take ALL of Kuwait .

April Glaspie

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• Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Important
  • Country
  • Most

• First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • People
  • Real
  • Money

• Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Good
  • Progress
  • Conflict

• I try to call the play as quickly as I possibly can and then shut up and let the crowd roar because, to me, the crowd is the most wonderful thing in the whole world when it's making noise.

  

  Vin Scully
  • World
  • Wonderful
  • Crowd

• As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Style
  • Vision

• Our opponents like to try and make you believe that Conservatism is a privilege of the few. But Conservatism conserves all that is great and best in our national heritage.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Great
  • Believe

• Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.

  

  Ann Veneman
  • Great
  • Different
  • Health

• I was at this fancy school, and I felt out of place, so I rebelled.

  

  Jimmy John Liautaud
  • School

• Now, I do not, on any level, possess the expertise to argue about the science of anthropological global warming. Nor do you, most likely. This certainly doesn't mean an average citizen has the duty to do the lock step.

  

  David Harsanyi
  • Science

• Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • High

• I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too.

  

  Fuzzy Zoeller
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Hope

• If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.

  

  Bob Woodward
  • Important
  • True
  • Risk

• Technologists come at a problem from the point of view that the system is working a certain way, and if I engage in that system and actually change the rules of the system, I can make it work a different way.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • Work
  • Different

• We intellectualize it, and we rationalize it, but it's really about a love of movies, and I think whether you're making an art film or you're making a genre film, if you don't really love that movie you are trying to make, you'll be able to tell.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Movie

• If you looked at my music collection and saw an album that was a soundtrack to a musical, it's probably because I had bought it to learn the music so I could go and audition.

  

  Carmen Cusack
  • Music

• Scoring goals is nice, but what matters are results.

  

  Diego Godin
  • Nice
  • Goals

• I've often said that while gaining muscle can be very difficult, it's also pretty simple - at the heart of it, you just need to take in more energy than you expend, and use an intelligent program. This is especially true for beginners.

  

  John Romaniello
  • Heart
  • True
  • Pretty

• When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's a life skill all people should learn.

  

  Joanne Harris
  • People
  • Life

• You always have a chance when your special teams are on the job, especially on the road, and your goalie is giving you big saves.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Job
  • Road
  • Chance

• only if the Iraqis themselves consent to the process.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Process
  • Consent
  • Iraqis

• The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Energy
  • Sea
  • Dwarves

• With the war in Iraq, I had the cooperation of the Department of Defense. Kuwait was pretty eager to get American journalists in there, to show us what a wonderful place they are, and what great allies they are to America, even though they didn't actually fight in the war.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • American
  • America

• Obviously, I didn't think, and nobody else did, that the Iraqis were going to take ALL of Kuwait .

  

  April Glaspie
  • Iraqis
  • Kuwait